Team Lead, Android Core Product

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

📋 Description

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

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

• Review pull requests and offer constructive developmental feedback.

• Assist team members by resolving blockers through investigation.

• Standardize effective implementations for use across the entire team.

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

• Recognize when the team should adapt its working methods.

• Minimize manual interventions required for successful releases.

• Resolve recurring issues by modifying underlying systems.

• Shift verification processes left and broaden automated checks.

• Facilitate planning sessions to focus the team's attention on decision-critical tasks.

• Define review criteria and sign-off responsibilities.

• Engage in Product, Design, and Engineering discussions, conveying team constraints at an early stage.

• Manage critical issues, oversee feature releases, and provide nightly builds for Quality Assurance.

• Mentor early-career engineers through meaningful tasks and dedicated learning time.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 5 years of software engineering experience, including leadership of a team or ownership of a major project 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 launching and maintaining background audio or other long-running background processes.

• A solid understanding of the significance of testing and approaches to writing tests, including limitations on coverage.

• An example of an initiative you introduced to a team that became embedded after your involvement ended, along with an honest reflection on the costs associated with it.

• Comfort in addressing the less popular aspects of the role: encouraging others to alter their work habits and managing the resulting friction.

• A perspective on which changes require in-depth reviews and which do not, based on the system's functionality.

• A proven history of developing solutions that your team actively utilized, not just enhancements that accelerated your personal workflow.

• The capability to articulate how your team collaborates with AI agents, beyond your individual practices.

• An intuitive grasp of product design, empathy for users, and a commitment to advancing Android UI/UX beyond standard specifications.

• A self-motivated approach to enhance the app and codebase beyond the outlined specifications.

• Strong communication abilities.

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

• Inclusion of portfolio and LinkedIn links with your application.

🏝️ Benefits

• Bonus

• Stock options

• A diverse and inclusive work environment