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 launch, collaborating closely with the design team throughout the process.

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

• Evaluate pull requests and offer constructive feedback.

• Assist team members by removing technical obstacles.

• Identify and integrate reusable implementations across the team.

• Ensure the shared codebase is well-tested, clear, and reusable.

• Enhance team processes and assess when changes to the workflow are necessary.

• Minimize the manual effort needed for successful releases.

• Tackle recurring issues by modifying the underlying setup.

• Advance verification processes by increasing automated checks.

• Lead planning sessions and direct the team's focus on decision-making tasks.

• Establish review criteria and sign-off responsibilities.

• Engage in discussions with Product, Design, and Engineering teams, communicating constraints early on.

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

• Mentor early-career engineers with development-oriented tasks and learning opportunities.

⛳️ Requirements

• A minimum of 5 years of software engineering experience, including leadership of a team or ownership of significant features while remaining hands-on.

• 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 maintaining background audio or other long-running background processes.

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

• An example of an initiative you introduced to the team that was sustained after your involvement, along with an honest assessment of the effort it took to achieve this.

• Comfort in navigating the less popular aspects of the role: encouraging changes in work habits and managing the resulting friction.

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

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

• The capability to articulate how your team collaborates with AI agents, in addition to your personal contributions.

• Intuition in product design, empathy for users, and the ambition to elevate Android UI/UX beyond basic specifications.

• A proactive approach to enhancing the app and codebase beyond what is specified.

• Exceptional communication skills.

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

🏝️ Benefits

• Bonus

• Stock

• A diverse and inclusive workplace