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, sustain, and enhance reliability metrics for essential features.

• Evaluate pull requests and offer constructive feedback on development.

• Help engineers overcome obstacles and resolve team challenges.

• Standardize solutions and oversee shared components.

• Ensure that shared code is thoroughly tested, clear, and well-organized.

• Propel improvements in team processes.

• Minimize manual intervention necessary for successful releases.

• Tackle recurring issues by enhancing foundational systems.

• Broaden automated verification and shift testing to earlier stages.

• Lead planning sessions and direct team focus on decisions that require action.

• Establish review criteria and sign-off responsibilities.

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

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

• Assist early-career engineers by providing suitable learning opportunities.

• Write and review code while taking a hands-on approach to feature ownership.

• Complete technical interviews and assess a real codebase during the hiring process.

⛳️ Requirements

• A minimum of 5 years of experience in software engineering, including time spent leading a team or owning a major surface 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.

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

• A solid understanding of the significance of tests and strategies for writing them, including recognizing what cannot be tested.

• An example of something you implemented within a team that persisted after you moved on, including an honest account of the effort required to achieve it.

• Comfort with the challenging aspects of the role: encouraging colleagues to alter their workflows and managing the resulting friction.

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

• A proven history of developing solutions that your team actively utilized, rather than just those that enhanced your own efficiency.

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

• A strong sense of product design intuition, user empathy, and the ambition to elevate Android UI/UX beyond the specifications provided.

• A self-motivated drive to enhance the app and codebase beyond what is specified.

• Exceptional communication skills.

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

• Submission of portfolio and LinkedIn links when applying.

🏝️ Benefits

• Bonus opportunities.

• Stock options based on experience.

• A diverse and inclusive work environment.