Team Lead, Android Core Product

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

📋 Description

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

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

• Review pull requests and offer constructive feedback to team members.

• Remove obstacles for engineers and investigate any technical challenges.

• Identify and standardize reusable solutions for the team.

• Ensure shared code is thoroughly tested, clear, well-maintained, and consolidated.

• Lead initiatives to improve team processes and working methodologies.

• Minimize manual interventions necessary for successful releases.

• Address recurring issues by modifying underlying systems.

• Shift verification to earlier stages and expand automated testing.

• Facilitate planning sessions focused on unresolved decisions.

• Establish appropriate review levels and sign-off processes.

• Engage in discussions across Product, Design, and Engineering, highlighting team constraints early.

• Manage critical issues, oversee feature releases, and provide nightly builds for QA.

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

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 5 years of software engineering experience, including leading a team or owning a significant feature while remaining hands-on.

• Strong expertise in Kotlin, Kotlin Coroutines, Kotlin Flow, Dagger 2, MVVM, Clean Architecture, Background Services, Music Player Service, Android animations, Jetpack Navigation, and JUnit testing.

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

• An understanding of the significance of tests and strategies for writing them, including limitations.

• Experience implementing a lasting change within a team, along with an honest account of the challenges faced.

• Comfort with the less popular aspects of the role: persuading colleagues to alter their work habits and managing the resulting friction.

• Insight into which changes warrant extensive review and which do not, based on system functionality.

• A history of developing solutions that the team actively utilizes, beyond just personal efficiency gains.

• Ability to articulate how the team collaborates with AI agents, not just personal workflows.

• Intuition for product design, user empathy, and the ambition to enhance Android UI/UX beyond specifications.

• Self-motivation to enhance the application and codebase beyond what is specified.

• Strong communication skills.

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

• Bonus: Experience in building, maintaining, or contributing to open-source Android projects.

• Bonus: Familiarity with iOS, Web, or NodeJS.

🏝️ Benefits

• Bonus

• Stock options

• A diverse and inclusive workplace