Team Lead, Android Core Product

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

📋 Description

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

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

• Evaluate pull requests and offer constructive feedback on development.

• Assist engineers in overcoming technical obstacles.

• Recognize successful implementations that should be adopted as team-wide standards and execute those changes.

• Maintain shared components through thorough testing, documentation, and consolidation efforts.

• Drive advancements in team processes.

• Minimize manual intervention needed for successful releases.

• Tackle recurring issues by modifying the foundational setup.

• Shift verification processes earlier in the timeline by broadening automated checks.

• Conduct planning sessions centered around unresolved decisions.

• Establish review criteria and sign-off responsibilities.

• Engage in discussions with Product, Design, and Engineering teams, communicating team constraints proactively.

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

• Provide learning opportunities for early-career engineers.

• Write and review code while taking a hands-on approach to feature ownership.

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

⛳️ Requirements

• Minimum of 5 years in software engineering, including experience leading a team or managing a significant project 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.

• Comprehension of the significance of testing and methodologies for writing tests, including aspects that cannot be covered by them.

• An example of an initiative you introduced to a team that persisted after your involvement ceased, along with a candid reflection on the effort required to achieve it.

• Comfort in encouraging others to alter their work habits and managing the resulting friction.

• Insight into which changes require extensive review and which do not, based on the system's functionality.

• Proven history of creating solutions that your team actively utilizes.

• Ability to articulate how your team collaborates with AI agents.

• Product design intuition, user empathy, and a motivation to enhance Android UI/UX beyond the specifications provided.

• Self-motivation to advance the app and codebase beyond what is defined in the specifications.

• Strong communication skills.

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

• Submission of portfolio and LinkedIn links with the application.

• Experience with open-source Android projects, iOS, Web, or NodeJS is considered a plus.

🏝️ Benefits

• Bonus

• Stock

• Diverse and inclusive workplace