Team Lead – Android Core Product

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

📋 Description

• Take ownership of significant features from inception to launch in collaboration with the design team.

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

• Evaluate pull requests and offer constructive feedback on development.

• Assist engineers in overcoming obstacles and look into stalled projects.

• Recognize and standardize reusable solutions within the team.

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

• Lead modifications to team processes.

• Minimize the need for manual intervention to ensure accurate releases.

• Tackle recurring issues by transforming underlying systems.

• Broaden automated verification and integrate testing earlier in the process.

• Organize planning and prioritize tasks that necessitate decision-making.

• Establish review requirements and sign-off milestones.

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

• Manage critical issues, oversee feature releases, and supply nightly builds for QA.

• Facilitate the learning and development of early-career engineers.

⛳️ Requirements

• A minimum of 5 years of software engineering experience, including leadership of a team or ownership of a significant surface 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 prolonged background tasks.

• Comprehension of the significance of tests and strategies for writing them, including aspects that may not be testable.

• Proven experience in implementing a team practice that continued after its execution.

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

• Capability to assess which changes necessitate extensive review and which do not.

• History of building solutions that the team actively utilized.

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

• Intuition for product design, user empathy, and a commitment to enhancing Android UI/UX.

• Self-motivation to enhance the application and codebase beyond the initial specifications.

• Exceptional communication skills.

• Participation in several technical interviews along with an assessment on a real codebase.

• Submission of portfolio and LinkedIn links is required with the application.

🏝️ Benefits

• Bonus

• Stock

• Diverse and inclusive workplace