Team Lead, Android Core Product

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

📋 Description

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

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

• Review pull requests and offer constructive feedback.

• Assist team members in overcoming obstacles and resolving technical challenges.

• Identify reusable solutions and standardize their implementation across the team.

• Maintain a well-tested, clear, and consolidated shared codebase.

• Propel improvements in team workflows.

• Minimize the need for manual interventions to ensure accurate releases.

• Tackle recurring issues by modifying the foundational systems.

• Advance verification processes by increasing automated checks.

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

• Establish appropriate review tiers and sign-off criteria.

• Engage in discussions with Product, Design, and Engineering teams, articulating team constraints effectively.

• Manage critical issues, take charge of feature releases, and deliver nightly builds for QA.

• Mentor early-career engineers by assigning learning-focused tasks and development time.

• Write and review code, actively owning features through hands-on involvement.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 5 years of experience in software engineering, including leadership of a team or ownership of a significant project 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 tests.

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

• Awareness of the significance of testing and approaches to writing tests, including limitations.

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

• Some familiarity with the less popular aspects of the role: encouraging changes in work habits and managing the associated friction.

• Insight into which changes require thorough review and which do not, supported by an understanding of the system's functionality.

• A history of creating solutions that are utilized by the team, rather than just enhancing personal efficiency.

• Capability to explain how your team interacts with AI agents, not just your personal approach.

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

• A self-motivated approach to enhance the app and codebase beyond what is detailed in specifications.

• Strong communication abilities.

• Completion of several technical interviews along with an assessment on an actual codebase.

• Links to your portfolio and LinkedIn profile.

🏝️ Benefits

• Bonus

• Stock

• Diverse and inclusive workplace