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, uphold, and enhance reliability metrics for essential features.

• Evaluate pull requests and offer constructive feedback for development.

• Assist team members by investigating and resolving technical challenges.

• Recognize and standardize reusable solutions across the team.

• Sustain shared components through testing, documentation, and consolidation.

• Drive improvements in team processes.

• Minimize manual intervention needed for successful releases.

• Tackle recurring issues by modifying the underlying systems.

• Advance verification practices by expanding automated checks.

• Facilitate planning sessions to ensure the team focuses on unresolved decisions.

• Establish suitable review levels and approval processes.

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

• Manage critical problems, take ownership of feature releases, and provide nightly builds for QA.

• Mentor and support early-career team members through learning-oriented tasks.

⛳️ Requirements

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

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

• Comprehension of the significance of tests and strategies for writing them, including aspects that may not be covered.

• A successful initiative you introduced to a team that persisted after your involvement ended, along with a candid account of the effort required to achieve it.

• Comfort with encouraging changes in work practices and navigating any resulting friction.

• Ability to discern which changes necessitate thorough review and which do not, supported by an understanding of the system's functionality.

• Proven track record of building solutions that are utilized by your team.

• Capacity to articulate how your team interacts with AI agents.

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

• Self-motivation to enhance the application and codebase beyond the outlined specifications.

• Exceptional communication abilities.

• Links to your portfolio and LinkedIn profile.

• 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.

• Fully remote work environment.

• No physical office.

• Several technical interviews along with an assessment on a real codebase.

• Interview process designed to be completed within one week.