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 the reliability metrics for critical features.

• Review pull requests and offer constructive feedback.

• Assist engineers in overcoming obstacles and investigate any stalled projects.

• Identify reusable solutions within the team and promote their implementation.

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

• Optimize team processes and determine when changes to workflow are necessary.

• Minimize the manual intervention needed for successful releases.

• Resolve recurring issues by modifying the underlying setup.

• Increase automated verification to ensure that nightly builds sent to QA are dependable.

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

• Establish suitable review levels and sign-off requirements.

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

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

• Aid in the development and growth of early-career engineers.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 5 years of software engineering experience, including experience leading a team or managing 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.

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

• A solid understanding of the significance of tests and strategies for writing them, including aspects that cannot be covered by tests.

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

• Some comfort with the less popular aspects of the job: persuading colleagues to alter their working methods, and managing the resulting friction.

• A perspective on which changes require extensive review and which do not, supported by an understanding of the system's functionality.

• A history of developing solutions that your team actively uses, rather than solely those that enhance your own speed.

• The capacity to articulate how your team collaborates with AI agents, not just how you personally interact with them.

• An intuition for product design, empathy for users, and the motivation to elevate Android UI/UX beyond the specifications.

• A self-driven approach to enhancing the app and codebase beyond what is specified.

• Exceptional communication skills.

• Completion of several technical interviews plus an assessment on a real codebase.

• Submission of portfolio and LinkedIn links when applying.

🏝️ Benefits

• Bonus structure.

• Stock options based on experience.

• A diverse and inclusive workplace.