Team Lead, Android Core Product

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

📋 Description

• Take full ownership of major features from conception to release, collaborating closely with the design team.

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

• Evaluate pull requests and offer constructive developmental feedback.

• Assist team members by resolving technical obstacles.

• Standardize successful implementations for collective team utilization.

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

• Drive improvements to team processes.

• Minimize manual interventions required for accurate releases.

• Tackle recurring issues by modifying underlying systems.

• Enhance automated verification and shift testing earlier within the development cycle.

• Conduct planning and prioritize tasks that necessitate decision-making.

• Establish review criteria and define ownership for approvals.

• Engage in discussions across Product, Design, and Engineering.

• Manage critical issues, oversee feature releases, and supply nightly builds for QA.

• Mentor early-career engineers through learning-focused tasks and development opportunities.

⛳️ Requirements

• Minimum of 5 years in software engineering, including experience leading a team or owning a significant surface while remaining hands-on.

• Strong proficiency in Kotlin, Kotlin Coroutines, Kotlin Flow, Dagger 2, MVVM, Clean Architecture, Background Services, Music Player Service, Android animations, Jetpack Navigation, and JUnit tests.

• Proven experience in shipping and maintaining background audio or other extended background processes.

• A solid grasp of the importance of tests and strategies for writing them, including limitations of what can be tested.

• An example of an initiative you introduced to a team that continued after your involvement ceased, along with a candid account of the costs associated with it.

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

• An opinion on which changes necessitate extensive review and which do not, supported by an understanding of system functionality.

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

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

• An intuitive sense for product design, user empathy, and the ambition to elevate Android UI/UX beyond the specifications.

• A proactive approach to enhancing the app and codebase beyond what is detailed in the specifications.

• Exceptional communication abilities.

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

• Links to your portfolio and LinkedIn profile.

🏝️ Benefits

• Bonus

• Stock

• Diverse and inclusive workplace