Team Lead, Android Core Product

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

📋 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.

• Assist team members by diagnosing and resolving technical challenges.

• Standardize effective implementations for use across the team.

• Maintain shared components to ensure they are thoroughly tested, clear, and consolidated.

• Lead initiatives to improve team processes.

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

• Tackle recurring issues by modifying the foundational setup.

• Shift verification processes to the left and broaden automated checks.

• Facilitate planning sessions and direct team focus on unresolved decisions.

• Establish review requirements and take ownership of sign-offs.

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

• Manage critical issues, oversee feature releases, and deliver nightly builds for QA.

• Provide support to early-career engineers, offering meaningful work and learning opportunities.

• Write code, review code, and actively take ownership of features.

⛳️ Requirements

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

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

• An example of an initiative you implemented in a team that continued to be utilized after your involvement, along with a candid account of the effort required to achieve it.

• Comfort with the less popular aspects of the role: encouraging changes in work habits and managing the resulting friction.

• Insight into which changes require extensive review and which do not, justified by system functionality.

• A history of developing solutions that are genuinely utilized by your team, rather than just those that enhance personal efficiency.

• The capability to articulate how your team collaborates with AI agents, beyond your individual contributions.

• An intuitive understanding of product design, user empathy, and a passion for elevating Android UI/UX beyond basic specifications.

• A self-motivated drive to enhance the application and codebase beyond the outlined specifications.

• Exceptional communication skills.

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

• Application to include links to your portfolio and LinkedIn profile.

🏝️ Benefits

• Bonus opportunities.

• Stock options.

• A diverse and inclusive workplace.