Team Lead, Android Core Product

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Latvia.

📋 Description

• Take ownership of significant Android features from conception to deployment, collaborating closely with the Design team.

• Manage, uphold, and enhance reliability metrics for essential features.

• Evaluate pull requests and offer constructive developmental feedback.

• Assist engineers by resolving technical challenges.

• Standardize successful implementations for use across the team.

• Maintain well-tested, clear, and consolidated shared components.

• Streamline team processes and minimize manual tasks during releases.

• Tackle recurring issues by modifying the foundational systems.

• Broaden automated verification and prioritize testing earlier in the development cycle.

• Conduct planning sessions and prioritize tasks that require decision-making.

• Establish review criteria and approval responsibilities.

• Engage in discussions with Product, Design, and Engineering teams.

• Manage critical challenges, oversee feature releases, and provide nightly builds for QA.

• Mentor junior engineers.

• Actively contribute by writing and reviewing code while leading the team.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 5 years of software engineering experience, including leadership in a team or ownership of a major feature while remaining hands-on.

• Proficient in Kotlin, Kotlin Coroutines, Kotlin Flow, Dagger 2, MVVM, Clean Architecture, Background Services, Music Player Service, Android animations, Jetpack Navigation, and JUnit tests.

• Experience in shipping and maintaining background audio or other long-running background tasks.

• Comprehension of the significance of tests and strategies for writing them, including limitations in coverage.

• Experience in implementing practices or systems that are adopted by the team.

• Comfort in requesting changes in workflows and managing any resulting friction.

• Capacity to identify which changes require extensive review and which do not.

• Proven ability to build tools or systems utilized by the rest of the team.

• Ability to articulate how the team collaborates with AI agents.

• Strong product design intuition, user empathy, and a desire to enhance Android UI/UX.

• Self-motivation to improve the application and codebase beyond the specified requirements.

• Exceptional communication skills.

• Completion of several technical interviews along with an assessment on a real codebase.

• Submission of a portfolio and LinkedIn links with the application.

🏝️ Benefits

• Bonus

• Stock

• Diverse and inclusive workplace