Team Lead, Android Core Product

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

📋 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.

• Evaluate pull requests and offer constructive developmental feedback.

• Assist engineers by removing obstacles and resolving technical challenges.

• Standardize successful implementations for team-wide application.

• Maintain well-tested, clear, and consolidated shared components.

• Drive improvements to team processes.

• Minimize manual intervention necessary for accurate releases.

• Tackle recurring issues by modifying underlying systems.

• Implement left-shift verification and broaden automated checks.

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

• Establish review criteria and sign-off responsibilities.

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

• Manage critical issues, take ownership of feature releases, and provide nightly builds for quality assurance.

• Mentor early-career engineers through meaningful assignments and dedicated learning time.

⛳️ Requirements

• A minimum of 5 years of software engineering experience, including leadership of a team or ownership of a significant feature 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 processes.

• Familiarity with the significance of tests and strategies for writing them, including aspects that may not be testable.

• An example of an initiative you introduced to a team that continued after you moved on, along with a candid assessment of the effort involved in achieving it.

• Comfort with the less popular aspects of the role: encouraging colleagues to alter their workflows and managing the resulting friction.

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

• A proven record of creating solutions that your team actively utilized, not just those that improved your own efficiency.

• The capability to articulate how your team collaborates with AI agents, beyond your personal interactions.

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

• A self-motivated approach to enhancing the app and codebase beyond what is explicitly described in the specifications.

• Strong communication abilities.

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

🏝️ Benefits

• Bonus

• Stock

• Diverse and inclusive workplace