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.

• Review pull requests and offer constructive feedback to peers.

• Assist team members by troubleshooting technical challenges.

• Standardize effective implementations for team utilization.

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

• Spearhead modifications to team processes.

• Minimize the manual intervention needed for successful releases.

• Resolve recurring issues by enhancing foundational systems.

• Broaden automated verification and shift testing earlier in the process.

• Conduct planning sessions to prioritize tasks requiring decisions.

• Establish appropriate review levels and sign-off protocols.

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

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

• Mentor early-career engineers through learning-focused tasks and guidance.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 5 years of experience in software engineering, including leadership experience or ownership of significant projects 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 maintaining background audio or other long-running background tasks.

• Recognize the significance of testing and how to approach writing tests, including understanding limitations.

• A successful initiative you introduced to a team that persisted after your involvement, accompanied by an honest assessment of the effort required to achieve it.

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

• An understanding of which changes necessitate extensive review and which do not, based on system functionality.

• A proven history of creating solutions that your team actively utilized, rather than just those that increased your personal efficiency.

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

• Intuition for product design, user empathy, and the motivation to advance Android UI/UX beyond specifications.

• Self-motivation to enhance the app and codebase beyond what is specified.

• Exceptional communication abilities.

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

• Links to your portfolio and LinkedIn profile.

🏝️ Benefits

• Bonus

• Stock options

• A diverse and inclusive workplace