Team Lead, Android Core Product

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

📋 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 deliver constructive feedback.

• Assist team members by identifying and resolving technical challenges.

• Standardize and streamline solutions for team-wide implementation.

• Ensure shared components are tested, comprehensible, and reusable.

• Propel enhancements in team processes.

• Minimize manual intervention necessary for successful releases.

• Tackle recurring issues by modifying the underlying configurations.

• Promote early verification by broadening automated checks.

• Conduct planning sessions centered on tasks requiring decisions.

• Establish suitable review levels and approval criteria.

• Engage in discussions with Product, Design, and Engineering, communicating team constraints proactively.

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

• Mentor early-career engineers by offering meaningful tasks and learning opportunities.

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

• Collaborate with a globally distributed team focused on developing text-to-speech reading products.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 5 years of software engineering experience, including leadership of a team or ownership of a significant project 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.

• Experience in shipping and maintaining background audio or other prolonged background tasks.

• Awareness of the significance of tests and how to effectively write them, including limitations on coverage.

• An example of a change you initiated that was adopted by the team after your involvement ended, along with a candid assessment of what it took to achieve that.

• Some familiarity with the less popular aspects of the role: encouraging colleagues to adapt their workflows and managing the resulting challenges.

• An understanding of which changes warrant extensive review and which do not, justified by system functionality.

• A history of developing tools that your team actively utilized, not just those that enhanced your own efficiency.

• The capability to articulate how your team collaborates with AI agents, beyond personal contributions.

• An instinct for product design, user empathy, and a commitment to advancing Android UI/UX beyond the specifications.

• A self-motivated approach to enhancing the app and codebase beyond the outlined requirements.

• Strong communication abilities.

• Experience in building, maintaining, or contributing to open-source Android projects (bonus).

• Familiarity with iOS, Web, or NodeJS (bonus).

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

• Links to your portfolio and LinkedIn profile.

🏝️ Benefits

• Bonus

• Stock options

• A diverse and inclusive work environment