Team Lead, Android Core Product

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

📋 Description

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

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

• Evaluate pull requests and offer constructive developmental feedback.

• Assist team members in overcoming technical obstacles.

• Recognize reusable implementations and establish them as standards for the team.

• Maintain shared code, ensuring it is well-tested, clear, and consolidated.

• Spearhead modifications to team processes.

• Minimize the manual interventions necessary for successful releases.

• Resolve recurring issues by modifying the underlying setup.

• Shift verification processes left by increasing automated checks prior to QA.

• Conduct planning sessions and direct the team's focus on unresolved tasks.

• Establish suitable review levels and sign-off criteria.

• Engage in discussions with Product, Design, and Engineering teams while conveying team constraints.

• Manage critical issues, take ownership of feature releases, and provide nightly builds to QA.

• Assist early-career engineers with learning opportunities.

• Write code, review code, and actively take ownership of features.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 5 years of experience in software engineering, including leadership of 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 prolonged background tasks.

• Understanding the significance of tests and how to approach writing them, including aspects that cannot be covered by tests.

• An example of a change you introduced to the team that continued to be used after your involvement ended, along with an honest assessment of the costs involved in implementing it.

• Some familiarity with encouraging people to alter their workflows and managing the resulting challenges.

• An insight into which changes require thorough review and which do not, supported by an understanding of the system's functionality.

• Proven experience in building solutions that are genuinely utilized by the rest of the team.

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

• Intuition for product design, empathy for users, and a motivation to advance Android UI/UX beyond the initial specifications.

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

• Outstanding communication skills.

• Submission of a portfolio and LinkedIn profile link with the application.

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

🏝️ Benefits

• Bonus

• Stock

• A diverse and inclusive workplace