Team Lead, Android Core Product

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

📋 Description

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

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

• Evaluate pull requests and offer constructive feedback.

• Assist engineers by identifying and resolving obstacles.

• Recognize reusable implementations and streamline shared components.

• Ensure shared code remains tested, organized, maintained, and consolidated.

• Propel improvements in team processes.

• Minimize the manual intervention necessary for successful releases.

• Tackle recurring issues by modifying the underlying setup.

• Increase automated verification and advance testing earlier in the development cycle.

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

• Establish review criteria and ownership for approvals.

• Engage in discussions involving Product, Design, and Engineering, while effectively communicating team limitations.

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

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

• Write and review code while remaining actively involved in development.

⛳️ Requirements

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

• Strong expertise 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 extended background tasks.

• A deep understanding of the significance of tests and strategies for writing them, including the limitations of what can be tested.

• Experience in introducing processes or practices that become integrated within a team.

• Comfort in encouraging colleagues to adapt their workflows and managing any resulting challenges.

• Capability to discern which changes require extensive review and which do not.

• A history of developing tools and features utilized by the broader team.

• Ability to articulate how the team collaborates with AI agents.

• Intuition for product design, empathy for users, and a strong desire to enhance Android UI/UX.

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

• Exceptional communication skills.

• Experience with open-source Android projects, iOS, Web, or NodeJS is advantageous.

🏝️ Benefits

• Bonus

• Stock

• Diverse and inclusive workplace