Team Lead, Android Core Product

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

📋 Description

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

• Manage, maintain, and enhance the reliability metrics associated with key features.

• Evaluate pull requests and offer constructive feedback.

• Assist engineers in overcoming obstacles and resolving team challenges.

• Identify reusable solutions and integrate shared components.

• Ensure that shared resources are tested, comprehensible, and easy to maintain.

• Enhance team workflows and minimize manual interventions in release processes.

• Resolve recurring issues by modifying the foundational setup.

• Broaden automated verification and shift testing earlier in the development cycle.

• Conduct planning sessions and prioritize tasks that require decision-making.

• Establish review criteria and ownership for sign-off processes.

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

• Address critical issues, oversee feature releases, and provide nightly builds for quality assurance.

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

⛳️ Requirements

• A minimum of 5 years of experience in software engineering, including experience leading a team or managing a significant 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 tests.

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

• Comprehension of the significance of tests and strategies for writing them, including aspects that cannot be tested.

• An example of an initiative you introduced to a team that continued after your involvement, along with a candid assessment of the effort required to implement it.

• Comfort with the less popular aspects of the role: encouraging colleagues to adapt their work habits and managing the resulting friction.

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

• A proven history of developing solutions that your team actively utilized, rather than just those that enhanced your speed.

• The capability to articulate how your team collaborates with AI agents, not just your personal methods.

• An intuitive grasp of product design, user empathy, and a commitment to advancing Android UI/UX beyond the specifications.

• A self-motivated approach to enhancing the application and codebase beyond the outlined requirements.

• Exceptional communication skills.

• Completion of several technical interviews followed by an assessment on an actual codebase.

• Links to your portfolio and LinkedIn profile.

🏝️ Benefits

• Bonus opportunities.

• Stock options.

• A diverse and inclusive work environment.