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, uphold, and enhance reliability metrics for essential features.

• Evaluate pull requests and offer constructive feedback.

• Assist team members by troubleshooting and resolving issues.

• Streamline shared implementations and create standard solutions for the team.

• Ensure the maintenance of well-tested, clear, and reusable shared components.

• Pinpoint and implement enhancements to team workflows.

• Minimize the need for manual intervention during successful releases.

• Resolve recurring issues by modifying underlying systems.

• Advance verification processes by increasing automated checks prior to QA.

• Conduct planning sessions focused on unresolved decisions.

• Establish appropriate review levels and necessary approvals.

• Engage in discussions across Product, Design, and Engineering, proactively addressing team constraints.

• Manage critical challenges, oversee feature releases, and deliver nightly builds for QA.

• Mentor early-career engineers by providing learning opportunities and dedicated development time.

• Write and review code, actively taking ownership of features.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 5 years of software engineering experience, including leadership roles or ownership of major components while maintaining a hands-on approach.

• 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-duration background tasks.

• Recognize the significance of testing and how to effectively approach writing tests, including limitations in coverage.

• Proven experience in introducing processes or practices that remain in place post-implementation.

• Comfort with encouraging changes in workflows and managing any resulting challenges.

• Capability to discern which changes necessitate extensive reviews based on system performance.

• History of developing solutions that are actively utilized by the team.

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

• Possess product design intuition, user empathy, and a commitment to enhancing Android UI/UX beyond basic specifications.

• Self-motivated to elevate the app and codebase beyond specified requirements.

• Strong communication skills.

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

🏝️ Benefits

• Bonus

• Stock

• Diverse and inclusive workplace