Team Lead, Android Core Product

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

📋 Description

• Take ownership of significant features from inception to release, 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 to improve code quality.

• Assist team members by investigating and resolving technical challenges.

• Identify reusable implementations and standardize them across the team.

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

• Drive changes to team processes and working methods.

• Minimize manual involvement required for successful releases.

• Tackle recurring issues by enhancing the foundational setup.

• Promote early verification by boosting automated checks prior to QA.

• Facilitate planning sessions so the team can concentrate on decision-driven tasks.

• Establish suitable review levels and sign-off criteria.

• Engage in discussions with Product, Design, and Engineering while communicating team constraints promptly.

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

• Mentor early-career engineers with valuable learning experiences.

• Conduct technical interviews and evaluate candidates through a real-codebase assessment during the interview process.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 5 years of software engineering experience, including leading a team or owning a significant 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 long-running background processes.

• Deep understanding of the significance of tests and how to approach writing them, including limitations.

• An example of a contribution you made to a team that persisted after you ceased advocating for it, along with a candid account of the effort required to achieve it.

• Comfort with the less popular aspects of the role: persuading others to alter their work habits and managing the ensuing friction.

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

• A proven history of creating solutions that your team found valuable, not just those that improved your own efficiency.

• The capability to articulate how your team collaborates with AI agents, in addition to your personal methods.

• Strong product design intuition, empathy for users, and the motivation to advance Android UI/UX beyond the specifications.

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

• Exceptional communication skills.

• Experience with open source Android projects is advantageous.

• Familiarity with iOS, Web, or NodeJS is a plus.

• Candidates must include links to their portfolio and LinkedIn when applying.

🏝️ Benefits

• Bonus

• Stock

• A diverse and inclusive workplace