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, sustain, and enhance reliability metrics for essential features.

• Evaluate pull requests and offer constructive feedback.

• Remove obstacles for engineers and investigate any stalled tasks.

• Recognize reusable solutions within the team and streamline redundant implementations.

• Ensure shared components remain tested, organized, and easy to maintain.

• Lead improvements to team processes.

• Minimize the need for manual intervention for successful releases.

• Tackle recurring issues by modifying underlying systems.

• Advance verification processes by increasing automated checks.

• Oversee planning and prioritize work that requires decision-making.

• Establish review criteria and sign-off stages.

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

• Manage critical problems, oversee feature releases, and deliver nightly builds for Quality Assurance.

• Assist early-career engineers with tasks focused on learning and development.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 5 years of experience in software engineering, including leadership of a team or ownership of a major feature while remaining hands-on.

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

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

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

• An example of an initiative you introduced to a team that persisted after your involvement ended, along with an honest assessment of the effort it took to implement.

• Some familiarity with encouraging colleagues to alter their workflows and managing the resulting friction.

• An understanding of which changes require thorough review and which do not, based on the system's functionality.

• A history of developing solutions that are actively utilized by your team.

• Capability to articulate how your team collaborates with AI agents.

• Intuition for product design, empathy for users, and motivation to advance Android UI/UX beyond the specifications.

• Self-motivation to enhance the app and codebase beyond the outlined requirements.

• Exceptional communication abilities.

• Experience in building, maintaining, or contributing to open-source Android projects (preferred).

• Familiarity with iOS, Web, or NodeJS (preferred).

• Participation in multiple technical interviews along with an assessment based on a real codebase.

• Links to your portfolio and LinkedIn profile.

🏝️ Benefits

• Bonus

• Stock options

• A diverse and inclusive workplace

• An interview process designed to be completed within one week