Team Lead, Android Core Product

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in North Carolina.

📋 Description

• Take ownership of significant 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 team members.

• Assist engineers by troubleshooting and resolving stalled tasks.

• Create standardized implementations for the entire team to utilize.

• Ensure shared components are well-tested, clear, and consolidated.

• Drive improvements in team processes and methodologies.

• Minimize manual intervention required for successful releases.

• Tackle recurring issues by modifying underlying systems.

• Shift verification leftward and broaden automated testing.

• Conduct planning sessions aimed at addressing unresolved decisions.

• Establish review requirements and sign-off responsibilities.

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

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

• Mentor early-career engineers through work that emphasizes learning and allocates time for skill development.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 5 years of experience in software engineering, including leading a team or owning a significant surface while remaining hands-on.

• 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 extended background tasks.

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

• A successful initiative you introduced to a team that persisted after your involvement, along with a candid assessment of the effort required to achieve that.

• Comfort with the more challenging aspects of the role: encouraging colleagues to alter their work habits and managing the resulting friction.

• Insight into which changes necessitate thorough review and which do not, based on system functionality.

• A proven history of creating solutions that your team genuinely uses, rather than solely those that enhance your own efficiency.

• The capability to articulate how your team interacts with AI agents, beyond personal experiences.

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

• A proactive approach to enhance the app and codebase beyond what is detailed in the specifications.

• Exceptional communication abilities.

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

• Inclusion of portfolio and LinkedIn links with your application.

🏝️ Benefits

• Bonus

• Stock

• Diverse and inclusive workplace