Team Lead, Android Core Product

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

📋 Description

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

• Manage, enhance, and ensure the reliability metrics for essential features.

• Evaluate pull requests and offer constructive developmental feedback.

• Assist team members by removing obstacles and resolving technical challenges.

• Standardize reusable solutions within the team.

• Maintain clear, tested, and consolidated shared components.

• Drive improvements in team processes.

• Minimize the need for manual intervention during correct releases.

• Tackle recurring issues by modifying underlying systems.

• Increase automated verification and integrate testing earlier in the development cycle.

• Facilitate planning sessions and focus the team's attention on unresolved issues.

• Establish review requirements and designate approval responsibilities.

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

• Address critical issues, take ownership of feature releases, and provide nightly builds for QA.

• Mentor early-career engineers through learning-focused tasks and development opportunities.

• Write, review, and maintain code, while leading the team in individual feature ownership.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 5 years of experience in software engineering, including leadership of a team or ownership of a significant surface while remaining hands-on.

• Strong proficiency 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 prolonged background tasks.

• Awareness of the significance of tests and strategies for writing them, including what cannot be covered by tests.

• An example of a concept you introduced to a team that persisted after your involvement ceased, along with a candid assessment of the effort it took to implement.

• Some familiarity with the less popular aspects of the role: persuading individuals to modify their work habits and adapting to the resulting friction.

• A perspective on which changes require extensive review and which do not, supported by the functionality of the system.

• A proven history of building solutions that the entire team utilized, rather than just those that enhanced your own speed.

• The capability to articulate how your team interacts with AI agents, in addition to your personal methods.

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

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

• Strong communication abilities.

• Completion of several technical interviews alongside an assessment on a real codebase.

• Submission of portfolio and LinkedIn links is required with the application.

🏝️ Benefits

• Bonus

• Stock

• A diverse and inclusive workplace