Team Lead, Android Core Product

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

📋 Description

• Take ownership of significant features from inception to release, 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 team members in overcoming obstacles by directly investigating issues.

• Standardize successful implementations for use across the team.

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

• Drive improvements in team processes.

• Minimize manual intervention necessary for proper releases.

• Address recurring issues by modifying underlying systems.

• Shift verification left and broaden automated checks prior to QA.

• Conduct planning focused on unresolved tasks.

• Establish review requirements and sign-off responsibilities.

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

• Manage critical issues, take ownership of feature releases, and supply nightly builds for QA.

• Provide learning opportunities for early-career engineers.

• Write and review code, taking a hands-on approach to feature ownership.

• Participate in technical interviews and a real-codebase assessment during the recruitment process.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 5 years of software engineering experience, including leadership of a team or ownership of a significant surface 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 prolonged background tasks.

• Comprehension of the significance of tests and strategies for writing them, including aspects that cannot be covered by tests.

• An example of something you implemented within a team that persisted after your involvement, along with a candid account of the costs associated with achieving that.

• Some familiarity with the less popular aspects of the job: encouraging changes in how others work and managing the subsequent friction.

• An understanding of which changes warrant extensive review and which do not, based on the system's functionality.

• A proven history of creating solutions that are genuinely utilized by your team, rather than only those that enhance your own efficiency.

• The capability to articulate how your team collaborates with AI agents, not solely your personal contributions.

• Intuition in product design, user empathy, and the motivation to advance Android UI/UX beyond initial specifications.

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

• Strong communication skills.

• Completion of several technical interviews, along with an assessment of a real codebase.

• Inclusion of portfolio and LinkedIn links with the application.

🏝️ Benefits

• Bonus

• Stock

• Diverse and inclusive workplace