Team Lead, Android Core Product

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

📋 Description

• Take full ownership of significant features alongside the design team, from initial decisions to final release.

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

• Engage in coding, code review, and hands-on ownership of features.

• Evaluate pull requests and offer constructive developmental feedback.

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

• Recognize reusable solutions within the team and consolidate duplicated implementations.

• Ensure shared components are well-tested, clear, and reusable.

• Enhance team processes and minimize manual intervention during releases.

• Modify underlying systems to avert recurring issues.

• Implement early verification through automated checks.

• Conduct planning sessions focused on unresolved decisions.

• Define review criteria and sign-off responsibilities.

• Engage in discussions with Product, Design, and Engineering teams, addressing team constraints early on.

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

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

⛳️ Requirements

• Minimum of 5 years of software engineering experience, including leadership of a team or ownership of a major surface while remaining hands-on.

• Proficient 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 prolonged background tasks.

• Understanding of the significance of tests and strategies for writing them, including limitations.

• Introduced a lasting contribution to a team that remained effective after the candidate's involvement ceased, with a candid assessment of its impact.

• Comfortable requesting changes in work habits and managing any ensuing friction.

• Ability to assess which changes require extensive review based on system behavior.

• Proven history of building tools that the team actively utilized.

• Capability to articulate the team's interaction with AI agents.

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

• Self-motivation to improve the app and codebase beyond outlined specifications.

• Exceptional communication skills.

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

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

🏝️ Benefits

• Bonus

• Stock options

• A diverse and inclusive workplace

• Multiple technical interviews along with an assessment on a real codebase

• Interview process designed to be completed within one week