Team Lead, Android Core Product

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

📋 Description

• Take ownership of major features from inception to deployment, collaborating closely with the design team throughout the process.

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

• Evaluate pull requests and offer constructive feedback.

• Assist engineers in overcoming technical challenges.

• Recognize reusable solutions within the team and merge redundant implementations.

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

• Initiate changes to team processes as necessary.

• Minimize the need for manual intervention during proper releases.

• Resolve recurring issues by modifying the underlying setup.

• Advance verification processes by broadening automated checks.

• Lead planning sessions focused on tasks that require decision-making.

• Determine the depth of reviews and the areas that require sign-off.

• Engage in discussions with Product, Design, and Engineering while highlighting team constraints early in the process.

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

• Mentor early-career engineers with suitably challenging tasks and learning opportunities.

⛳️ Requirements

• A minimum of 5 years of software engineering experience, including leadership roles or ownership of significant features 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 sustaining background audio or other prolonged background tasks.

• Comprehensive understanding of the significance of tests and the approach to writing them, including areas that cannot be covered.

• An example of a successful initiative you introduced to a team that persisted after your involvement, along with an honest account of the effort required to achieve it.

• Comfort with the less popular aspects of the role: encouraging changes in how colleagues work and managing the resulting friction.

• An insight into which changes require extensive review and which do not, supported by the system's functionality.

• A proven history of creating solutions that are utilized by the team, beyond just improving your own efficiency.

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

• An intuitive sense for product design, user empathy, and a commitment to enhancing Android UI/UX beyond specifications.

• A self-driven approach to improving the app and codebase beyond the outlined specifications.

• Exceptional communication abilities.

• Submission of a portfolio and LinkedIn profile with the application.

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

• Bonus: Experience in building, maintaining, or contributing to open-source Android projects.

• Bonus: Familiarity with iOS, Web, or NodeJS.

🏝️ Benefits

• Bonus

• Stock

• A diverse and inclusive workplace