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, maintain, and enhance reliability metrics for essential features.

• Review pull requests and offer constructive feedback on development.

• Assist engineers in overcoming obstacles by investigating unresolved issues.

• Standardize team implementations and streamline duplicated shared components.

• Ensure that shared components are well-tested, clear, and maintainable.

• Identify and execute enhancements to team processes.

• Minimize the manual intervention needed for successful releases.

• Tackle recurring issues by refining underlying systems.

• Broaden automated verification and shift testing earlier in the development timeline.

• Conduct planning focused on outstanding decisions.

• Establish appropriate review levels and sign-off criteria.

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

• Manage critical issues, take charge of feature releases, and provide nightly builds for QA.

• Mentor early-career engineers through learning-oriented tasks and development time.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 5 years of software engineering experience, with time spent leading a team or managing a major 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 processes.

• Comprehension of the significance of tests and strategies for writing them, including limitations on coverage.

• An example of an initiative you introduced to a team that persisted after your involvement, including an honest evaluation of the cost to achieve it.

• Some familiarity with the less popular aspects of the role: encouraging changes in work habits and managing the resultant friction.

• Insight into which changes necessitate thorough review and which do not, based on the system's functionality.

• A history of creating solutions that your team actually utilized, not just those that enhanced your own efficiency.

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

• A sense of product design intuition, user empathy, and the ambition to elevate Android UI/UX beyond the specifications.

• A self-motivated approach to enhancing the app and codebase beyond what is specified.

• Outstanding communication skills.

🏝️ Benefits

• Bonus

• Stock

• Diverse and inclusive workplace