Team Lead, Android Core Product

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

📋 Description

• Take complete ownership of significant Android features from inception to release, collaborating closely with the Design team.

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

• Evaluate pull requests and offer constructive developmental feedback.

• Assist engineers in overcoming obstacles by investigating technical challenges.

• Integrate successful implementations into standardized practices for the team.

• Ensure the maintenance of tested, clear, and consolidated shared components.

• Identify and execute enhancements to team procedures.

• Minimize the manual intervention necessary for successful releases.

• Tackle recurring issues by modifying the underlying systems.

• Advance verification processes and broaden automated checks.

• Conduct planning sessions focused on unresolved decisions.

• Establish suitable review levels and necessary sign-offs.

• Engage in discussions with Product, Design, and Engineering teams while conveying team limitations.

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

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

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 5 years of experience in software engineering, including experience leading a team or managing a significant 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 sustaining background audio or other long-running background tasks.

• Strong understanding of the significance of tests and strategies for writing them, including limitations that cannot be covered by tests.

• An example of a practice you implemented within a team that persisted after you ceased advocating for it, along with a candid evaluation of the effort required to achieve that.

• Some comfort in encouraging colleagues to modify their work methods and managing the resulting friction.

• Insight into which changes necessitate thorough reviews and which do not, based on the system's functionality.

• A proven history of developing solutions that were genuinely utilized by the rest of the team.

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

• An intuitive grasp of product design, empathy for users, and a determination to advance Android UI/UX beyond the specifications.

• Self-motivation to enhance the app and codebase beyond what is outlined in the specifications.

• Exceptional communication skills.

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

• Submission of portfolio and LinkedIn links is required with the application.

🏝️ Benefits

• Bonus.

• Stock options.

• A diverse and inclusive workplace.