Team Lead, Android Core Product

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

📋 Description

• Take ownership of significant features from inception to launch in collaboration with the design team.

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

• Evaluate pull requests and offer constructive feedback.

• Assist engineers in overcoming obstacles and resolving technical challenges.

• Standardize reusable solutions throughout the team.

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

• Enhance team processes and identify when modifications in working methods are necessary.

• Minimize manual intervention required for successful releases.

• Address recurring issues by refining the underlying systems.

• Increase automated verification and advance testing earlier in the development cycle.

• Lead planning sessions and direct the team's focus on unresolved decisions.

• Establish review requirements and clarify approval ownership.

• Collaborate with Product, Design, and Engineering teams.

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

• Guide early-career engineers with substantial work and learning opportunities.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 5 years of software engineering experience, including leadership in a team or ownership of a major surface 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.

• Experience in shipping and maintaining background audio or other long-running background processes.

• Comprehension of the significance of tests and the approach to writing them, including limitations on coverage.

• A successful initiative you implemented within a team that persisted after your involvement ended, along with an honest assessment of the costs incurred to achieve it.

• Comfort with encouraging changes in others' work habits and managing the friction that may arise.

• Insight into which changes demand extensive review and which do not, backed by an understanding of the system's functionality.

• Proven history of developing solutions that were effectively utilized by the rest of the team.

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

• Intuition for product design, user empathy, and a desire to enhance Android UI/UX beyond the specifications.

• Self-motivation to enhance the application and codebase beyond the outlined specifications.

• Exceptional communication skills.

• Multiple technical interviews followed by an assessment on an actual codebase.

• Links to portfolio and LinkedIn.

🏝️ Benefits

• Bonus

• Stock options

• A diverse and inclusive work environment