Team Lead, Android Core Product

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

📋 Description

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

• Oversee, maintain, and enhance reliability metrics for essential features.

• Evaluate pull requests and offer constructive feedback on development.

• Assist team members by troubleshooting technical challenges.

• Standardize effective solutions for use across the team.

• Ensure shared components are well-tested, clearly defined, and consolidated.

• Drive improvements in team processes.

• Minimize the need for manual intervention during accurate releases.

• Tackle recurring issues by modifying underlying systems.

• Amplify automated verification and integrate testing earlier in the development cycle.

• Conduct planning sessions focused on tasks requiring decision-making.

• Establish appropriate levels of review and sign-off criteria.

• Engage in discussions with Product, Design, and Engineering, effectively communicating team limitations.

• Manage critical issues, oversee feature releases, and provide nightly builds to QA.

• Mentor early-career engineers with appropriately challenging tasks and opportunities for learning.

• Participate in several technical interviews and a hands-on assessment of a real codebase during the hiring process.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 5 years of experience in software engineering, including leading a team or taking ownership of a significant 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 shipping and maintaining background audio or other long-running background tasks.

• Comprehension of the significance of tests and the approach to writing them, including aspects that cannot be tested.

• A noteworthy contribution you made to a team that was sustained after you moved on, along with an honest assessment of the effort required to achieve it.

• Some familiarity with the less popular aspects of the role: encouraging colleagues to change their work habits and navigating the resulting challenges.

• An understanding of which changes require extensive review and which do not, based on the functionality of the system.

• A proven history of developing solutions that are actually utilized by your team, rather than just those that enhance your personal efficiency.

• The capacity to articulate how your team collaborates with AI agents, beyond your individual contributions.

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

• Initiative to enhance the application and codebase beyond the provided specifications.

• Strong communication skills.

• Include portfolio and LinkedIn links with your application.

🏝️ Benefits

• Bonus

• Stock options

• A diverse and inclusive work environment