Team Lead, Android Core Product

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

📋 Description

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

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

• Review pull requests and offer constructive feedback.

• Assist team members by investigating and resolving stalled tasks.

• Identify and standardize reusable implementations within the team.

• Oversee shared code management, including testing, clarity, and consolidation.

• Drive changes in team processes.

• Minimize manual intervention needed for successful releases.

• Tackle recurring issues by modifying underlying systems.

• Expand automated verification and shift testing efforts earlier in the development cycle.

• Conduct planning sessions focused on work that requires decision-making.

• Establish appropriate review levels and necessary approvals.

• Engage in discussions related to Product, Design, and Engineering while highlighting team constraints early.

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

• Mentor early-career engineers through learning-oriented tasks and development opportunities.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 5 years of software engineering experience, including a leadership role or ownership of a significant feature 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 prolonged background tasks.

• Insight into the significance of tests and strategies for writing them, including coverage limitations.

• An example of a successful initiative you introduced to a team that persisted after your involvement, including an honest assessment of the costs incurred to implement it.

• Ability to navigate the less popular aspects of the role: encouraging colleagues to alter their workflows and managing the resulting friction.

• An informed perspective on which changes necessitate extensive review and which do not, based on system functionality.

• A proven history of developing tools that your team actively utilized, rather than solely those that expedited your own work.

• Capability to articulate how your team collaborates with AI agents, not just your personal approach.

• An instinct for product design, empathy for users, and a commitment to enhancing Android UI/UX beyond the specifications.

• A self-motivated drive to elevate the app and codebase beyond the outlined specifications.

• Exceptional communication abilities.

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

• Inclusion of links to a portfolio and LinkedIn profile in the application.

🏝️ Benefits

• Bonus

• Stock

• Diverse and inclusive workplace