Team Lead, Android Core Product

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

📋 Description

• Take ownership of major features from start to finish, collaborating closely with the design team from the decision phase through to release.

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

• Review pull requests and offer constructive feedback.

• Assist engineers in overcoming technical challenges and obstacles.

• Standardize successful implementations for team-wide application.

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

• Lead initiatives to improve team processes.

• Minimize manual intervention needed for successful releases.

• Tackle recurring issues by enhancing underlying systems.

• Shift verification processes to the left and broaden automated checks.

• Oversee planning and prioritize tasks that require decision-making.

• Establish review criteria and ownership for approvals.

• Engage in discussions involving Product, Design, and Engineering.

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

• Support early-career engineers with development time and learning-oriented tasks.

• Write and review code while taking hands-on ownership of features.

• Complete technical interviews and a real-codebase assessment as part of the interview process.

⛳️ Requirements

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

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

• An example of something you introduced to a team that endured after you ceased advocating for it, along with an honest evaluation of the effort required to achieve that.

• Some familiarity with the less popular aspects of the job: encouraging colleagues to modify their work habits and managing the resulting friction.

• An informed perspective on which changes necessitate thorough review and which do not, based on the system's behavior.

• A proven history of building features that your team actively utilized, not just those that enhanced your personal efficiency.

• The capability to articulate how your team collaborates with AI agents, beyond your individual approach.

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

• A self-motivated drive to enhance the app and codebase beyond the outlined specifications.

• Strong communication skills.

• Experience in building, maintaining, or contributing to open-source Android projects (bonus).

• Familiarity with iOS, Web, or NodeJS (bonus).

• Participation in several technical interviews and an assessment on a real codebase.

• Portfolio and LinkedIn links requested with application.

🏝️ Benefits

• Bonus

• Stock

• Diverse and inclusive workplace