Team Lead, Android Core Product

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

📋 Description

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

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

• Review pull requests and offer constructive feedback to team members.

• Assist team members by identifying and resolving blockers.

• Recognize successful implementations for broader team adoption.

• Maintain shared components to ensure they are tested, clear, and integrated.

• Drive improvements in team processes.

• Minimize the need for manual intervention during successful releases.

• Tackle recurring issues by modifying the foundational setup.

• Promote early verification by expanding automated checks prior to QA.

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

• Establish suitable review levels and sign-off protocols.

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

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

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

• Conduct technical interviews and evaluate candidates using a real codebase assessment during the hiring process.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 5 years of experience in software engineering, including leadership of a team or ownership of significant projects 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 tasks.

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

• An example of a change you implemented that sustained after your influence waned, along with a candid assessment of the effort involved.

• Some experience with the challenging aspects of the role: encouraging changes in work habits and managing the resulting friction.

• A perspective on which changes warrant extensive review and which do not, supported by an understanding of system functionality.

• A history of developing solutions that your team actively utilized, not just those that improved your personal efficiency.

• The capability to articulate how your team collaborates with AI agents, beyond your individual practices.

• An intuitive grasp of product design, user empathy, and the motivation to enhance Android UI/UX beyond the specifications.

• Initiative to enhance the app and codebase beyond the defined specifications.

• Exceptional communication skills.

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

🏝️ Benefits

• Bonus

• Stock

• A diverse and inclusive workplace