Team Lead, Android Core Product

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

📋 Description

• Take ownership of significant features from inception to launch, collaborating closely with the design team throughout the decision-making and release phases.

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

• Evaluate pull requests and offer constructive feedback.

• Assist engineers in overcoming challenging issues through investigation.

• Standardize successful implementations for the entire team’s benefit.

• Ensure the maintenance of well-tested, clear, and consolidated shared components.

• Lead initiatives to evolve team processes and work methodologies.

• Minimize the manual intervention needed for successful releases.

• Tackle recurring issues by modifying foundational systems.

• Advance verification processes earlier and broaden automated checks.

• Facilitate planning sessions and focus the team's attention on unresolved tasks.

• Establish review criteria and sign-off responsibilities.

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

• Manage critical issues, oversee feature releases, and provide nightly builds for Quality Assurance.

• Mentor and support the development of early-career engineers.

• Actively participate in coding and code review while leading the core Android product team.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 5 years of experience in software engineering, including leadership experience or owning a significant product 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 tests.

• Experience in shipping and sustaining background audio or similar long-running background tasks.

• Knowledge of the significance of testing and strategies for writing tests, including limitations.

• A successful initiative you implemented in a team that continued after your involvement, and a candid account of the effort required to achieve it.

• Comfort with the less popular aspects of the role: encouraging team members to adjust their workflows, along with managing any resulting friction.

• A perspective on which changes require extensive review and which do not, supported by an understanding of system functionality.

• A history of creating solutions that are utilized by your team, rather than solely focusing on personal efficiency.

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

• Strong product design instincts, user empathy, and a commitment to enhancing Android UI/UX beyond the specifications.

• Self-motivation to advance the application and codebase beyond what is defined in the specifications.

• Exceptional communication skills.

• Submission of portfolio and LinkedIn links is requested with the application.

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

• Bonus: Background in iOS, Web, or NodeJS.

• Participation in several technical interviews along with an assessment on a real codebase.

🏝️ Benefits

• Bonus

• Stock options

• A diverse and inclusive workplace