Team Lead, Android Core Product

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

📋 Description

• Take ownership of significant features from inception to launch, collaborating closely with the design team throughout the process.

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

• Review pull requests and offer constructive feedback.

• Assist engineers by troubleshooting and resolving any work that has stalled.

• Standardize reusable solutions within the team and streamline redundant implementations.

• Ensure that shared components are well-tested, clear, and easy to maintain.

• Recognize when the team needs to adapt its processes and lead those transformations.

• Minimize manual intervention necessary for successful releases.

• Tackle recurring issues by modifying the foundational setup.

• Promote early verification by enhancing automated checks.

• Conduct planning sessions focused on tasks requiring decisions.

• Establish appropriate review levels and sign-off protocols.

• Engage in discussions regarding Product, Design, and Engineering, and proactively communicate team constraints.

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

• Mentor early-career engineers with impactful assignments and opportunities for learning.

⛳️ Requirements

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

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

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

• Understanding the significance of tests and the methodology for writing them, including aspects that cannot be covered by tests.

• An example of an initiative you introduced to a team that persisted after your involvement ended, along with an honest assessment of the effort required to achieve that result.

• Some comfort with the less popular aspects of the role: encouraging changes in work practices and managing the resulting friction.

• A perspective on which changes warrant extensive review and which do not, based on the system's functionality.

• A history of creating solutions that your team genuinely utilized, rather than just those that improved your own efficiency.

• The capability to articulate how your team integrates AI agents into its workflow, not just your personal approach.

• An intuitive understanding of product design, user empathy, and a determination to advance Android UI/UX beyond the specifications.

• A proactive attitude towards enhancing the app and codebase beyond the outlined specifications.

• Strong communication abilities.

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

• Links to your portfolio and LinkedIn profile.

🏝️ Benefits

• Bonus

• Stock

• A diverse and inclusive work environment