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.

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

• Evaluate pull requests and offer constructive development feedback.

• Assist team members by resolving technical obstacles.

• Recognize reusable solutions within the team and promote their integration.

• Manage shared components with a focus on testing, clarity, and consolidation.

• Propose enhancements to team workflows.

• Minimize the manual effort needed for successful releases.

• Tackle recurring issues at the foundational system level.

• Advance verification processes and broaden automated checks prior to QA.

• Facilitate planning sessions that concentrate on decision-making work.

• Establish suitable review levels and necessary approvals.

• Engage in discussions with Product, Design, and Engineering to highlight team constraints early on.

• Manage critical issues, take ownership of feature releases, and supply nightly builds for QA.

• Mentor early-career team members through learning-centric tasks and development opportunities.

• Involve yourself in technical interviews and a real-codebase assessment process.

⛳️ Requirements

• A minimum of 5 years of software engineering experience, including leadership of a team or managing a significant surface while remaining hands-on.

• Strong proficiency 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-duration background tasks.

• Comprehension of the significance of tests and strategies for writing them, including limitations.

• Proven experience in implementing changes within a team that continued to be utilized post-implementation.

• Ease in prompting individuals to alter their workflows and managing any resulting friction.

• Capability to discern between changes that require extensive review and those that do not.

• A history of developing tools or features that the rest of the team utilizes.

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

• Intuition for product design, user empathy, and the capacity to elevate Android UI/UX beyond basic specifications.

• Initiative to enhance the app and codebase beyond outlined specifications.

• Exceptional communication abilities.

• Submission of portfolio and LinkedIn links is required in the application.

• Experience with open source Android projects, iOS, Web, or NodeJS is considered a plus.

🏝️ Benefits

• Bonus

• Stock