Team Lead, Android Core Product

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

📋 Description

• Take full ownership of significant Android core product features from inception to release, working closely alongside the Design team.

• Engage in coding by writing and reviewing code while actively managing features.

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

• Evaluate pull requests and provide constructive technical feedback.

• Assist engineers by identifying and resolving technical obstacles.

• Recognize reusable team solutions and streamline duplicate implementations.

• Maintain shared components to ensure they are tested, clear, and reusable.

• Foster enhancements to team processes and methodologies.

• Minimize manual intervention needed for successful releases.

• Tackle recurring issues by modifying underlying systems.

• Move verification earlier in the process by expanding automated checks.

• Conduct planning sessions focused on work that requires decision-making.

• Establish suitable review levels and sign-off criteria.

• Engage in discussions with Product, Design, and Engineering, highlighting team constraints early.

• Manage critical issues and take ownership of feature releases.

• Provide nightly builds to the QA team.

• Mentor early-career engineers with meaningful projects and learning opportunities.

• Collaborate within a flat, distributed organization that develops text-to-speech products utilized by over 50 million users.

⛳️ Requirements

• Minimum of 5 years in software engineering, including experience leading a team or managing a major 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 testing.

• Proven experience in shipping and maintaining background audio or other long-running background tasks.

• Understanding of the significance of tests and how to approach writing them, including aspects that may not be testable.

• An example of a contribution to a team that continued to persist after the candidate ceased advocating for it, with an honest account of its implementation cost.

• Comfortable asking colleagues to change their workflows and managing any resulting friction.

• Ability to assess which changes require substantial review based on system behavior.

• Proven history of creating solutions that are used by the rest of the team.

• Capability to explain how the team collaborates with AI agents.

• Strong product design intuition, user empathy, and a desire to enhance Android UI/UX beyond specifications.

• Self-motivated to improve the app and codebase beyond basic specifications.

• Excellent communication abilities.

• Bonus: Experience in building, maintaining, or contributing to open source Android projects.

• Bonus: Familiarity with iOS, Web, or NodeJS.

• A portfolio and LinkedIn profile links are requested with the application.

🏝️ Benefits

• Bonus.

• Stock options based on experience.

• Fully remote work environment.

• Multiple technical interviews along with an assessment on a real codebase.

• Interview process designed to be completed within one week.