Team Lead, Android Core Product

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

📋 Description

• Take ownership of significant features from inception to deployment in collaboration with the design team.

• Manage, maintain, and enhance reliability metrics for critical features.

• Evaluate pull requests and offer constructive developmental feedback.

• Assist team members by resolving technical challenges.

• Standardize successful implementations for the team's benefit.

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

• Drive improvements in team processes.

• Minimize the need for manual intervention to ensure accurate releases.

• Tackle recurring issues by enhancing underlying systems.

• Broaden automated verification processes prior to nightly QA builds.

• Conduct planning sessions focused on unresolved decisions.

• Establish review requirements and sign-off protocols.

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

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

• Mentor junior team members.

• Write and review code while taking direct responsibility for features.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 5 years of experience in software engineering, including leadership of a team or ownership of a major component 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.

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

• Experience in implementing changes that are sustainable within a team environment.

• Comfortable prompting changes in work practices and managing the associated challenges.

• Ability to discern which changes require thorough review and which do not.

• A proven history of creating tools or systems utilized by the wider team.

• Capable of articulating how the team collaborates with AI agents.

• Intuition for product design, user empathy, and a commitment to enhancing Android UI/UX.

• Self-motivated to elevate the app and codebase beyond the initial specifications.

• Exceptional communication abilities.

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

• Availability of a portfolio link and LinkedIn profile.

🏝️ Benefits

• Bonus opportunities.

• Stock options based on experience.

• Fully remote work environment.

• No physical office presence required.

• A diverse and inclusive workplace culture.