Team Lead, Android Core Product

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

📋 Description

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

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

• Review pull requests and offer constructive developmental feedback.

• Assist team members by identifying and resolving technical challenges.

• Recognize reusable implementations and advocate for their integration across the team.

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

• Drive improvements in team processes and workflows.

• Minimize the need for manual intervention to ensure accurate releases.

• Tackle recurring issues by modifying underlying systems.

• Advance verification processes by increasing automated checks before QA stages.

• Facilitate planning sessions and concentrate team efforts on decision-making work.

• Assess suitable review requirements and sign-off protocols.

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

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

• Mentor early-career engineers by offering them meaningful work and growth opportunities.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 5 years of experience in software engineering, including leadership of a team or responsibility for a major component while remaining hands-on.

• Strong proficiency in Kotlin, Kotlin Coroutines, Kotlin Flow, Dagger 2, MVVM, Clean Architecture, Background Services, Music Player Service, Android animations, Jetpack Navigation, and JUnit testing.

• Experience in shipping and maintaining background audio or other long-running background processes.

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

• An example of a successful initiative you introduced to a team that persisted after your involvement, along with a candid assessment of the effort required to achieve it.

• Some familiarity with the less popular aspects of the role: persuading others to modify their workflows and managing the resulting friction.

• Insight on which changes warrant extensive review and which do not, based on system functionality.

• A history of constructing solutions that are actively utilized by your team, not solely those that enhance your personal efficiency.

• The capability to articulate how your team collaborates with AI agents, rather than solely your personal practices.

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

• A proactive approach to improving the application and codebase beyond the outlined specifications.

• Outstanding communication skills.

• Completion of several technical interviews along with an assessment on an actual codebase.

• Links to a portfolio and LinkedIn profile.

• Bonus: Experience in building, maintaining, or contributing to open-source Android projects.

• Bonus: Familiarity with iOS, Web, or NodeJS.

🏝️ Benefits

• Bonus compensation.

• Stock options.

• A diverse and inclusive workplace environment.