Team Lead, Android Core Product

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

📋 Description

• Take full ownership of significant features from conception to release, collaborating closely with the design team throughout the process.

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

• Review code submissions and offer constructive feedback.

• Remove obstacles for engineers and address team challenges.

• Standardize reusable solutions across the team to enhance efficiency.

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

• Lead initiatives to improve team processes and methodologies.

• Minimize the manual intervention needed for successful releases.

• Tackle recurring issues by modifying the underlying systems.

• Enhance automated verification processes and shift testing to earlier phases.

• Facilitate planning sessions focused on unresolved decisions.

• Establish review criteria and define approval responsibilities.

• 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 meaningful projects and learning opportunities.

⛳️ Requirements

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

• Recognize the significance of tests and know how to effectively write them, including understanding their limitations.

• A successful implementation you introduced to a team that persisted after your involvement, along with an honest assessment of the efforts required to achieve it.

• Comfort in addressing the less popular aspects of the role: encouraging changes in workflow and managing the resulting friction.

• A perspective on which changes warrant extensive review and which do not, based on the system's functionality.

• A proven history of creating solutions that your team actively utilized, rather than solely those that improved your own efficiency.

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

• An intuitive understanding of product design, user empathy, and the ambition to elevate Android UI/UX beyond the specifications.

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

• Exceptional communication abilities.

• Successful completion of several technical interviews along with an assessment of a real codebase.

• Links to your portfolio and LinkedIn profile.

🏝️ Benefits

• Bonus

• Stock options

• A diverse and inclusive workplace