Team Lead, Android Core Product

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

📋 Description

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

• Manage, uphold, and enhance reliability metrics for essential features.

• Review code submissions and offer constructive developmental feedback.

• Assist engineers in overcoming obstacles and investigate any stalled tasks.

• Identify team-wide reusable solutions and streamline duplicated implementations.

• Ensure shared components are thoroughly tested, well-documented, and reusable.

• Lead necessary changes to team processes.

• Minimize the need for manual intervention for successful releases.

• Tackle recurring issues by modifying the foundational setup.

• Enhance verification processes and broaden automated checks.

• Conduct planning sessions focused on tasks that require decision-making.

• Establish suitable review levels and required approvals.

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

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

• Mentor early-career engineers by providing learning opportunities.

⛳️ Requirements

• A minimum of 5 years of software engineering experience, including leadership of a team or ownership of a major feature 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 long-running background tasks.

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

• A successful initiative you introduced to a team that remained effective after your involvement ended, along with a candid account of the effort required to implement it.

• Comfort with the less popular aspects of the role: encouraging colleagues to adapt their workflows and managing the resulting friction.

• Insight into which changes require extensive review and which do not, justified by the system's functionality.

• A proven history of developing solutions that your team actively uses, rather than solely those that enhance your own efficiency.

• The capability to articulate how your team collaborates with AI agents, not just your individual practices.

• An intuitive understanding of product design, user empathy, and the motivation to elevate Android UI/UX beyond the specifications.

• A proactive approach to enhancing the app and codebase beyond what is specified.

• Strong communication skills.

• Participation in multiple technical interviews, including an assessment on an actual codebase.

• Links to your portfolio and LinkedIn profile.

🏝️ Benefits

• Bonus opportunities.

• Stock options.

• A diverse and inclusive workplace.