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 release in collaboration with the design team.

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

• Evaluate pull requests and offer constructive feedback.

• Assist engineers by troubleshooting ongoing issues.

• Standardize effective solutions for use across the team.

• Maintain tested, clear, and integrated shared components.

• Drive improvements in team processes.

• Minimize manual intervention needed for successful releases.

• Tackle recurring issues by modifying underlying systems.

• Broaden automated verification and transition testing to earlier stages.

• Facilitate planning and concentrate team efforts on unresolved decisions.

• Establish review levels and necessary approvals.

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

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

• Assist early-career engineers with learning opportunities.

• Write and review code, actively owning features.

• Participate in technical interviews and assess real codebases.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 5 years of software engineering experience, including leadership roles or ownership of significant projects while maintaining hands-on involvement.

• 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 sustaining background audio or other extended background tasks.

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

• An example of a contribution to a team that persisted after your involvement, along with a candid account of the effort it took to achieve that.

• Comfort in encouraging changes in work habits and managing the resulting friction.

• Insight into which changes necessitate thorough review and which do not, based on system functionality.

• Proven history of creating solutions that are genuinely utilized by your team.

• Ability to articulate how your team collaborates with AI agents.

• Intuition for product design, empathy for users, and a commitment to enhance Android UI/UX beyond specifications.

• Initiative to advance the app and codebase beyond the given specifications.

• Exceptional communication abilities.

• Inclusion of portfolio and LinkedIn links with the application.

• Experience with open source Android projects, or familiarity with iOS, Web, or NodeJS is a plus.

🏝️ Benefits

• Bonus

• Stock options

• A diverse and inclusive workplace

• An interview process that aims to be completed within one week