Team Lead, Android Core Product

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

📋 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.

• Evaluate pull requests and offer constructive feedback.

• Facilitate the resolution of obstacles for team members by directly investigating issues.

• Standardize effective implementations for team-wide application.

• Maintain shared code by ensuring thorough testing, documentation, and consolidation.

• Propel improvements in team processes.

• Minimize the need for manual intervention during releases.

• Tackle recurring issues by modifying the underlying configuration.

• Advance verification processes by increasing automated checks.

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

• Establish review criteria and approval workflows.

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

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

• Mentor early-career engineers and offer learning opportunities.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 5 years of experience in software engineering, including a leadership role or ownership of a major 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 deploying and maintaining background audio or other long-running background tasks.

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

• A successful initiative you implemented within a team that persisted after your involvement ceased, along with an honest assessment of the effort required to achieve that.

• Comfort with the less popular aspects of the role, such as encouraging changes in work habits and managing the subsequent friction.

• Ability to discern which changes warrant extensive review and which do not, based on system functionality.

• A proven history of developing solutions that are actively utilized by your team, beyond merely enhancing personal efficiency.

• Capability to articulate how your team collaborates with AI agents, beyond personal methodologies.

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

• Self-motivation to enhance the application and codebase beyond what is specified.

• Strong communication skills.

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

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

• Please provide links to your portfolio and LinkedIn profile.

🏝️ Benefits

• Bonus

• Stock options

• A diverse and inclusive work environment