Team Lead, Android Core Product

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

📋 Description

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

• Oversee, uphold, and enhance reliability metrics for critical features.

• Evaluate pull requests and offer constructive feedback.

• Assist team members by diagnosing and resolving issues to eliminate roadblocks.

• Recognize reusable solutions and standardize their implementation across the team.

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

• Drive improvements to team processes.

• Minimize the manual intervention required for successful releases.

• Tackle recurring issues by modifying underlying systems.

• Advance verification efforts by broadening automated checks.

• Conduct planning sessions and focus team efforts on tasks that require decision-making.

• Establish suitable review levels and sign-off protocols.

• Engage in discussions across Product, Design, and Engineering, while effectively communicating team constraints.

• Manage critical issues, take ownership of feature releases, and deliver nightly builds for QA.

• Mentor early-career team members by providing meaningful projects and learning opportunities.

⛳️ Requirements

• A minimum of 5 years of software engineering experience, which includes leading a team or owning a major component 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.

• Proven experience in shipping and maintaining background audio or other long-running background tasks.

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

• An example of an initiative you implemented within a team that persisted after your advocacy ceased, along with a candid account of the resources invested to achieve it.

• Comfort in requesting changes in workflows from colleagues, despite the potential for friction.

• A perspective on which modifications necessitate thorough review and which do not, grounded in the system's functionality.

• A history of creating solutions that are genuinely utilized by your team.

• Ability to articulate how your team collaborates with AI agents.

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

• Self-motivation to enhance the app and codebase beyond the outlined specifications.

• Exceptional communication skills.

• Participation in several technical interviews along with an assessment based on a real codebase.

• Include portfolio and LinkedIn links with your application.

🏝️ Benefits

• Bonus

• Stock

• Commitment to a diverse and inclusive workplace