Team Lead, Android Core Product

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

📋 Description

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

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

• Review pull requests and offer constructive feedback to peers.

• Assist team members in overcoming technical challenges.

• Standardize successful implementations for use across the team.

• Oversee shared components through testing, documentation, and consolidation efforts.

• Guide modifications to team processes.

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

• Address recurring issues by modifying underlying systems.

• Advance verification processes by incorporating more automated checks before QA.

• Lead planning efforts and prioritize tasks that require decision-making.

• Establish review requirements and sign-off protocols.

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

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

• Mentor early-career engineers with significant tasks and learning opportunities.

• Actively write and review code while leading the Android core product team.

⛳️ Requirements

• A minimum of 5 years in software engineering, including experience in leading a team or managing a major feature 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 types of long-running background tasks.

• Knowledge of the significance of tests and how to write them effectively, including aspects that cannot be covered by testing.

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

• Comfort with the more challenging aspects of the role: encouraging colleagues to alter their work habits, and managing the resulting friction.

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

• A proven history of creating solutions that are utilized by the team, rather than solely focusing on personal efficiency.

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

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

• Self-motivation to improve the application and codebase beyond the outlined requirements.

• Strong communication skills.

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

• Submission of portfolio and LinkedIn links with the application.

🏝️ Benefits

• Bonus

• Stock

• Diverse and inclusive workplace