Team Lead, Android Core Product

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

📋 Description

• Take ownership of significant Android features from conception to release while collaborating closely with Design.

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

• Review pull requests and offer constructive feedback.

• Assist engineers in overcoming obstacles and resolving technical challenges.

• Identify reusable solutions and standardize them throughout the team.

• Maintain well-tested, clear, and consolidated shared components.

• Lead improvements to team processes and workflows.

• Minimize the manual interventions needed for successful releases.

• Tackle recurring issues by modifying underlying systems.

• Encourage early verification through increased automated testing.

• Conduct planning sessions focused on unresolved decisions.

• Establish review criteria and sign-off responsibilities.

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

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

• Mentor early-career engineers by providing meaningful projects and learning opportunities.

⛳️ Requirements

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

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

• Comprehension of the significance of tests and strategies for writing them, including areas that cannot be covered by tests.

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

• Some familiarity with encouraging changes in work habits and managing the associated friction.

• A perspective on which changes require extensive review and which do not, based on the system's functionality.

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

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

• Intuition for product design, empathy for users, and a commitment to enhancing Android UI/UX beyond specifications.

• A proactive attitude towards improving both the app and codebase beyond initial specifications.

• Exceptional communication abilities.

• Completion of several technical interviews along with an assessment of a real codebase.

• Submission of portfolio and LinkedIn links with your application is required.

• Bonus: Experience in building, maintaining, or contributing to open-source Android projects.

• Bonus: Familiarity with iOS, Web, or NodeJS.

🏝️ Benefits

• Bonus opportunities.

• Stock options based on experience.

• A diverse and inclusive work environment.