Team Lead, Android Core Product

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

📋 Description

• Take ownership of significant features from inception to delivery in collaboration with the design team.

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

• Evaluate pull requests and offer constructive developmental feedback.

• Assist engineers in overcoming obstacles and addressing team challenges.

• Standardize reusable implementations and unify duplicate solutions.

• Maintain well-tested and clearly defined shared components.

• Streamline team processes and minimize manual interventions during releases.

• Modify underlying systems to eliminate recurring issues.

• Broaden automated verification processes and shift testing to earlier stages.

• Facilitate planning and direct team focus toward decision-critical tasks.

• Establish review requirements and sign-off responsibilities.

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

• Address critical issues, oversee feature releases, and deliver nightly builds to QA.

• Provide support and learning opportunities for early-career engineers.

⛳️ Requirements

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

• Proficiency in Kotlin, Kotlin Coroutines, Kotlin Flow, Dagger 2, MVVM, Clean Architecture, Background Services, Music Player Service, Android animations, Jetpack Navigation, and JUnit testing.

• Experience in shipping and maintaining background audio or other long-duration background tasks.

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

• A contribution you've made to a team that persisted after your involvement ended, along with a candid reflection on the effort required to achieve it.

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

• Insight into which changes necessitate extensive review and which do not, based on the system's functionality.

• Proven history of developing tools and solutions that are actively utilized by your team.

• Capability to explain how your team integrates with AI agents.

• An intuitive sense of product design, empathy for users, and a passion for enhancing Android UI/UX beyond standard specifications.

• Self-motivation to advance the app and codebase beyond set specifications.

• Strong communication skills.

• Experience with open-source Android projects, iOS, Web, or NodeJS is beneficial but not mandatory.

• Multiple technical interviews and an evaluation based on a real codebase.

🏝️ Benefits

• Bonus opportunities.

• Stock options.

• A diverse and inclusive work environment.