Team Lead, Android Core Product

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

📋 Description

• Take ownership of significant features from inception to launch, 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.

• Assist team members in overcoming obstacles and resolving technical challenges.

• Standardize solutions across the team and eliminate redundant implementations.

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

• Lead enhancements in team processes.

• Minimize the need for manual intervention during proper releases.

• Tackle recurring issues by refining underlying systems.

• Advance verification processes by increasing automated checks.

• Oversee planning and prioritize tasks that require decision-making.

• Establish review criteria and determine approval responsibilities.

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

• Manage critical issues, take charge of feature releases, and provide nightly builds for QA.

• Mentor early-career engineers through learning-focused projects and development time.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 5 years of software engineering experience, including leading a team or owning a significant 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.

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

• Strong understanding of the significance of tests and how to effectively write them, including limitations.

• A successful initiative you implemented in a team that persisted after your involvement, along with an honest reflection on the effort required to achieve it.

• Some familiarity with the less popular aspects of the role: encouraging colleagues to change their workflows and managing the resulting friction.

• Insight into which changes necessitate extensive review and which do not, based on the system's functionality.

• A history of developing solutions that were genuinely utilized by the team, rather than solely enhancing personal efficiency.

• The capacity to articulate how your team collaborates with AI agents, not just your personal approach.

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

• A proactive drive to enhance the app and codebase beyond the outlined specifications.

• Outstanding communication skills.

• Include links to a portfolio and LinkedIn profile with your application.

🏝️ Benefits

• Bonus

• Stock

• Diverse and inclusive workplace