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 deployment, collaborating closely with the design team throughout the process.

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

• Review pull requests and offer constructive feedback on development.

• Assist team members by identifying and resolving obstacles that hinder progress.

• Standardize successful implementations for use across the team.

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

• Initiate enhancements to team processes.

• Minimize the manual intervention required for successful releases.

• Address recurring issues at the foundational system level.

• Shift verification left by increasing automated checks prior to QA.

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

• Determine suitable review levels and sign-off requirements.

• Engage in discussions related to Product, Design, and Engineering while communicating team constraints.

• Manage critical issues, take charge of feature releases, and provide nightly builds for QA.

• Assist early-career team members through learning opportunities.

• Participate in technical interviews and assessments involving real codebases.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 5 years of software engineering experience, including leadership of a team 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.

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

• Knowledge of the significance of testing and approaches to writing tests, including limitations.

• An example of a change you introduced to a team that persisted after you stopped advocating for it, along with an honest assessment of the effort required to achieve it.

• Comfort with the less popular aspects of the job: encouraging colleagues to modify their workflows and managing the resultant friction.

• An understanding of which changes require thorough review and which do not, based on system functionality.

• A proven history of building tools that your team actively utilized, rather than solely those that improved your own efficiency.

• The capability to articulate how your team collaborates with AI agents, beyond just your personal methods.

• A sense of product design intuition, user empathy, and the ambition to elevate Android UI/UX beyond the specifications.

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

• Outstanding communication skills.

• Experience in building, maintaining, or contributing to open-source Android projects (bonus).

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

🏝️ Benefits

• Bonus

• Stock

• Diverse and inclusive workplace