Team Lead, Android Core Product

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

📋 Description

• Take ownership of significant features alongside the design team, overseeing the process from decision-making through to release.

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

• Evaluate pull requests and offer constructive developmental feedback.

• Assist engineers in overcoming obstacles and directly investigate issues.

• Recognize and standardize reusable solutions for the team.

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

• Spearhead modifications to team processes.

• Minimize the manual intervention necessary for successful releases.

• Tackle recurring issues by refining foundational systems.

• Advance verification processes by broadening automated checks.

• Conduct planning sessions and prioritize tasks that require decision-making.

• Establish review levels and sign-off criteria.

• Engage in discussions with 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 tasks and development opportunities.

⛳️ Requirements

• A minimum of 5 years of software engineering experience, including leadership of a team or ownership of a significant surface 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 testing.

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

• A solid understanding of the significance of testing and strategies for writing effective tests, including limitations of coverage.

• An example of a contribution you made to a team that persisted after your involvement, along with an honest assessment of the effort required to implement it.

• Some comfort in encouraging changes in others' work habits and managing the subsequent friction.

• An opinion on which changes necessitate thorough reviews and which do not, supported by an understanding of the system's functionality.

• A proven history of creating solutions that were actually utilized by the rest of your team.

• Ability to articulate how your team collaborates with AI agents.

• An intuition for product design, empathy for users, and a commitment to enhance Android UI/UX beyond the specifications.

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

• Strong communication abilities.

• Portfolio and LinkedIn profiles are requested upon application.

• Experience with open-source Android projects, iOS, Web, or NodeJS is a plus, but not mandatory.

🏝️ Benefits

• Bonus

• Stock