Team Lead, Android Core Product

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

📋 Description

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

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

• Conduct pull request reviews and offer constructive feedback to peers.

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

• Identify and establish standardized solutions for the entire team to utilize.

• Ensure that shared components are tested, well-defined, and consolidated.

• Lead modifications to team processes for better efficiency.

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

• Tackle recurring issues by modifying the foundational systems.

• Promote early verification by expanding automated checks.

• Facilitate planning sessions focused on decision-driven work.

• Set clear review requirements and sign-off procedures.

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

• Manage critical issues, take charge of feature releases, and provide nightly builds for Quality Assurance.

• Mentor early-career engineers by offering them meaningful tasks and learning opportunities.

• Write, review, and take hands-on ownership of code and features.

⛳️ Requirements

• A minimum of 5 years of software engineering experience, including leadership of a team or ownership of a major surface 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 tests.

• Proven experience in shipping and maintaining background audio or other prolonged background tasks.

• A solid understanding of test importance and effective strategies for writing them, including limitations on coverage.

• An example of an initiative you implemented within a team that persisted after your involvement, along with a candid account of the resources required to achieve it.

• Comfort in encouraging others to adapt their work habits and managing any ensuing friction.

• A perspective on which changes warrant extensive review and which do not, supported by a clear understanding of system functionality.

• A history of developing solutions that are effectively utilized by your team.

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

• Strong intuition for product design, user empathy, and a commitment to advancing Android UI/UX beyond the specifications.

• Self-motivation to enhance the application and codebase beyond the outlined specifications.

• Exceptional communication skills.

• Successful completion of several technical interviews and an assessment on an actual codebase.

• Portfolio and LinkedIn links must be included with the application.

🏝️ Benefits

• Bonus

• Stock