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 alongside the design team.

• Oversee, sustain, and enhance reliability metrics for essential features.

• Write code, review pull requests, and provide constructive feedback.

• Help engineers overcome obstacles and directly investigate issues.

• Standardize successful implementations for the benefit of the entire team.

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

• Drive changes to team processes.

• Minimize manual intervention necessary for successful releases.

• Address recurring challenges by refining underlying systems.

• Shift verification processes earlier through increased automated checks.

• Facilitate planning and focus team efforts on unresolved decisions.

• Define suitable review levels and sign-off protocols.

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

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

• Support early-career engineers by offering learning opportunities.

• Actively contribute as a Team Lead for Speechify's Android text-to-speech application.

⛳️ Requirements

• A minimum of 5 years in software engineering, including experience leading a team or owning a significant feature 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 tests.

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

• A solid understanding of the significance of tests and the approach to writing them, including limitations.

• Experience in introducing practices or systems that are adopted by the team.

• Comfort in asking team members to adjust their workflows while managing any resulting friction.

• Ability to discern which changes require extensive review and which do not.

• A history of creating solutions utilized by the broader team.

• Capability to articulate how the team collaborates with AI agents.

• Intuition for product design, user empathy, and a commitment to enhancing Android UI/UX.

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

• Exceptional communication abilities.

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

• Portfolio and LinkedIn links requested.

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

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

🏝️ Benefits

• Bonus opportunities.

• Stock options based on experience.

• Fully distributed work environment.

• Flexibility of remote work.

• A diverse and inclusive workplace culture.