Team Lead, Android Core Product

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

📋 Description

• Take ownership of significant Android features from inception to launch, working closely with Design throughout the entire process.

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

• Evaluate pull requests and offer constructive feedback on development.

• Assist engineers in overcoming obstacles and resolving technical challenges.

• Standardize and unify shared implementations within the team.

• Enhance team processes and determine when adjustments to working methods are necessary.

• Minimize manual intervention needed for successful releases.

• Tackle recurring issues by modifying the underlying systems.

• Broaden automated verification and move testing earlier in the development cycle.

• Facilitate planning sessions to ensure team focus on outstanding decisions.

• Establish review criteria and sign-off duties.

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

• Manage critical issues, oversee feature releases, and deliver nightly builds to QA.

• Mentor early-career engineers by providing them with meaningful projects and learning opportunities.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 5 years of experience in software engineering, including leadership experience or managing 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.

• Proven experience in shipping and maintaining background audio or other long-running background tasks.

• A solid understanding of the significance of tests and strategies for writing them, including limitations on test coverage.

• A successful initiative you introduced to a team that continued post your involvement, along with a candid account of the effort involved.

• Some familiarity with guiding team members to alter their working methods and managing the resulting friction.

• An informed perspective on which changes necessitate extensive review and which do not, backed by an understanding of the system's functionality.

• A history of developing solutions that your team has actively utilized.

• Capability to articulate how your team collaborates with AI agents.

• An intuitive grasp of product design, empathy for users, and a desire to advance Android UI/UX beyond the specifications.

• A self-motivated approach to enhancing the app and codebase beyond the outlined specifications.

• Strong communication skills.

• Completion of several technical interviews and an assessment on a practical codebase.

• Links to your portfolio and LinkedIn profile.

🏝️ Benefits

• Bonus

• Stock