Team Lead, Android Core Product

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

📋 Description

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

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

• Review pull requests and offer constructive feedback on development.

• Assist engineers in overcoming obstacles and investigate ongoing technical challenges.

• Identify reusable solutions for the team and streamline duplicate implementations.

• Ensure shared components are tested, well-organized, maintained, and consolidated.

• Lead improvements to team processes as necessary.

• Minimize manual intervention needed for successful releases.

• Enhance underlying systems to avoid recurring issues.

• Promote early verification by expanding automated checks.

• Facilitate planning and direct the team's efforts on unresolved decisions.

• Establish review criteria and sign-off protocols.

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

• Address critical issues, take charge of feature releases, and provide nightly builds to QA.

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

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 5 years of software engineering experience, including team leadership or ownership of significant projects while remaining hands-on.

• Strong proficiency in Kotlin, Kotlin Coroutines, Kotlin Flow, Dagger 2, MVVM, Clean Architecture, Background Services, Music Player Service, Android animations, Jetpack Navigation, and JUnit testing.

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

• Understanding of the significance of testing and approaches to writing them, including limitations.

• An example of a contribution to a team that persisted after your involvement ended, along with an honest account of the effort required to implement it.

• Comfort with encouraging others to modify 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.

• A proven history of developing tools and features that are actively utilized by the team.

• Capability to articulate how the team interacts with AI agents.

• Intuition for product design, empathy for users, and a commitment to advancing Android UI/UX beyond specifications.

• Initiative to enhance the app and codebase beyond what is specified.

• Exceptional communication skills.

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

• Inclusion of portfolio and LinkedIn links with the application.

🏝️ Benefits

• Bonus opportunities.

• Stock options based on experience.

• A diverse and inclusive workplace.