Team Lead, Android Core Product

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

📋 Description

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

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

• Evaluate pull requests and offer constructive feedback.

• Assist team members by troubleshooting and resolving technical obstacles.

• Standardize effective solutions for team-wide application.

• Ensure shared components are tested, clear, and consolidated.

• Lead initiatives to improve team processes.

• Minimize the need for manual intervention in successful releases.

• Address persistent issues by modifying the foundational setup.

• Shift verification processes earlier in the workflow and broaden automated testing.

• Organize planning sessions and direct the team's focus on pending tasks.

• Establish review prerequisites and determine approval responsibilities.

• Engage in discussions with Product, Design, and Engineering teams, communicating team constraints proactively.

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

• Mentor early-career engineers through learning-oriented projects and dedicated development time.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 5 years of software engineering experience, including leadership of a team or management of a significant surface 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 extended background tasks.

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

• An example of something you implemented in a team that persisted after your involvement ended, along with a candid assessment of the effort required to achieve it.

• Comfort with the less popular aspects of the role: encouraging changes in others' workflows and managing resultant friction.

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

• A proven history of developing tools that are utilized by your team, rather than solely those that enhance your efficiency.

• The capability to articulate how your team collaborates with AI agents, beyond your personal contributions.

• An instinct for product design, user empathy, and the ambition to enhance Android UI/UX beyond the specifications.

• A proactive approach to improving the application and codebase beyond what is outlined in specifications.

• Strong communication skills.

• Successful completion of multiple technical interviews along with an assessment on a real codebase.

• Links to your portfolio and LinkedIn included with your application.

🏝️ Benefits

• Bonus

• Stock

• Diverse and inclusive workplace