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 meaningful feedback.

• Assist engineers by addressing and resolving stalled work.

• Standardize successful implementations for the entire team to utilize.

• Ensure shared components are tested, well-maintained, and consolidated.

• Drive improvements in team processes.

• Minimize the manual intervention needed for successful releases.

• Tackle recurring issues by modifying underlying systems.

• Shift verification processes left through the use of automated checks.

• Manage planning and prioritize tasks that require decision-making.

• Establish appropriate review levels and sign-off criteria.

• Engage in discussions related to Product, Design, and Engineering.

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

• Provide support for early-career engineers through learning opportunities.

• Conduct technical interviews and evaluate a real codebase as part of the hiring process.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 5 years of experience in software engineering, with a background in leading a team or owning a major surface while remaining hands-on.

• Strong 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 forms of long-running background processes.

• A solid understanding of the significance of tests and strategies for writing them, including limitations of test coverage.

• Demonstrated instance of introducing a lasting change to a team, along with a candid account of the effort required to achieve it.

• Some comfort with the less popular aspects of the role: encouraging people to alter their working methods and managing the resulting friction.

• Insight on which changes warrant extensive review and which do not, based on system functionality.

• Proven history of creating tools that are genuinely utilized by the team, rather than solely those that enhance personal efficiency.

• The capability to articulate how your team collaborates with AI agents, not just your individual approach.

• Intuition in product design, user empathy, and the ambition to elevate Android UI/UX beyond the specifications.

• A proactive mindset to enhance the app and codebase beyond the outlined specifications.

• Exceptional communication skills.

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

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

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

🏝️ Benefits

• Bonus

• Stock

• A diverse and inclusive workplace