Team Lead, Android Core Product

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

📋 Description

• Take ownership of major 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 removing obstacles and resolving technical challenges.

• Standardize successful implementations for use across the team.

• Ensure that shared code is tested, clear, well-maintained, and consolidated.

• Propel changes to team processes.

• Minimize the manual intervention required for accurate releases.

• Tackle recurring issues by modifying underlying systems.

• Shift verification left and broaden automated checks prior to QA.

• Conduct planning sessions focused on work that necessitates decision-making.

• Establish suitable review requirements and sign-off responsibilities.

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

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

• Offer learning opportunities to early-career engineers.

• Write and review code while leading the team in feature ownership.

⛳️ Requirements

• A minimum of 5 years of software engineering experience, including time spent leading a team or managing 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 extended background processes.

• Understanding the significance of tests and how to approach writing them, including limitations.

• An example of something you introduced to a team that endured after your involvement, along with an honest assessment of the costs involved.

• Some familiarity with the less popular aspects of the role: encouraging team members to change their work habits and managing the resulting friction.

• Insight into which changes require thorough reviews and which do not, based on system functionality.

• A history of constructing items that the rest of your team actively utilized, not merely those that improved your efficiency.

• The capacity to articulate how your team collaborates with AI agents, as well as your personal contributions.

• An intuitive grasp of product design, user empathy, and the ambition to enhance Android UI/UX beyond the specifications.

• A self-motivated approach to improving the application and codebase beyond what is detailed in the specifications.

• Strong communication skills.

• Experience in building, maintaining, or contributing to open source Android projects (bonus).

• Familiarity with iOS, Web, or NodeJS (bonus).

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

• Portfolio and LinkedIn profile links.

🏝️ Benefits

• Bonus

• Stock

• Diverse and inclusive workplace