Team Lead, Android Core Product

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

📋 Description

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

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

• Evaluate pull requests and offer constructive developmental feedback.

• Assist team members in overcoming technical challenges and obstacles.

• Standardize successful implementations for team-wide use.

• Preserve tested, clear, and consolidated shared components.

• Propel enhancements to team processes.

• Minimize the need for manual intervention to ensure accurate releases.

• Tackle recurring issues by modifying underlying systems.

• Shift verification early in the process and broaden automated checks.

• Conduct planning sessions centered around work that necessitates decision-making.

• Establish review requirements and approval workflows.

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

• Manage critical issues, take charge of feature releases, and deliver nightly builds for QA.

• Mentor early-career engineers by providing impactful work and dedicated learning opportunities.

⛳️ Requirements

• A minimum of 5 years of software engineering experience, including experience leading a team or owning 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.

• Recognize the significance of tests and approaches to writing them, including their limitations.

• An example of an initiative you introduced to a team that persisted after your involvement ended, along with a candid assessment of the effort required to achieve it.

• Comfortable with requesting changes in work practices and managing the resulting friction.

• An understanding of which changes warrant thorough review and which do not, based on system functionality.

• A proven history of developing solutions that your team actively utilizes.

• The capability to articulate how your team collaborates with AI agents.

• An instinct for product design, user empathy, and the ambition to elevate Android UI/UX beyond specifications.

• A self-motivated approach to enhancing the app and codebase beyond the outlined requirements.

• Exceptional communication skills.

• Include links to your portfolio and LinkedIn profile with your application.

🏝️ Benefits

• Bonus.

• Stock options.

• A diverse and inclusive workplace.