Team Lead, Android Core Product

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

📋 Description

• Take full 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 developmental insights.

• Assist engineers by removing obstacles and addressing team challenges.

• Standardize shared solutions and merge redundant implementations.

• Ensure shared code remains tested, comprehensible, and maintainable.

• Spearhead modifications to team processes.

• Minimize manual interventions necessary for accurate releases.

• Tackle recurring issues by enhancing foundational systems.

• Broaden automated verification and shift testing to earlier stages of development.

• Facilitate planning and direct team focus on unresolved matters.

• Establish review criteria and designate approval ownership.

• Engage in discussions across Product, Design, and Engineering.

• Address critical issues, oversee feature releases, and deliver nightly builds to QA.

• Mentor early-career engineers by providing learning opportunities.

• Conduct technical interviews and assess real-codebase capabilities as part of the hiring process.

⛳️ Requirements

• A minimum of 5 years of software engineering experience, including leadership or ownership of a major 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.

• Proven experience in shipping and managing background audio or other long-running background tasks.

• Comprehension of the significance of tests and strategies for writing them, including limitations.

• Experience in implementing a change or practice that gained acceptance within a team.

• Comfort in requesting colleagues to adapt their workflows and addressing any resulting friction.

• Capability to discern which changes require extensive review and which do not.

• A history of creating solutions that are utilized by the rest of the team.

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

• Strong product design intuition, empathy for users, and a commitment to enhancing Android UI/UX.

• Self-motivation to advance the app and codebase beyond the outlined specifications.

• Exceptional communication abilities.

• Experience with open-source Android projects (bonus).

• Familiarity with iOS, Web, or NodeJS (bonus).

🏝️ Benefits

• Bonus.

• Stock options based on experience.

• A diverse and inclusive workplace.