Team Lead, Android Core Product

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

📋 Description

• Take ownership of significant features from conception to release in collaboration with the design team.

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

• Evaluate pull requests and offer constructive developmental feedback.

• Assist engineers by resolving obstacles and investigating team challenges.

• Standardize successful implementations for use across the team.

• Sustain well-tested, clear, and consolidated shared code.

• Propel improvements to team processes.

• Minimize the need for manual intervention to ensure accurate releases.

• Tackle recurring issues by modifying foundational systems.

• Broaden automated verification and advance testing earlier in the development cycle.

• Conduct planning sessions targeting unresolved decisions.

• Establish review requirements and approval stages.

• 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 meaningful projects and dedicated learning time.

• Participate in technical interviews and assess 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.

• 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.

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

• Comprehension of the significance of tests and approaches to writing them, including limitations on coverage.

• Experience in implementing processes or practices that endure post-implementation.

• Ability to encourage changes in work habits and manage the resulting friction.

• Skill in distinguishing between changes that require extensive review and those that do not.

• Proven record of developing solutions utilized by the broader team.

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

• Intuition for product design, user empathy, and Android UI/UX skills.

• Initiative to enhance the app and codebase.

• Excellent communication abilities.

• Inclusion of portfolio links and LinkedIn profile with the application.

• Experience with open source Android projects is a plus.

• Familiarity with iOS, Web, or NodeJS is an added advantage.

🏝️ Benefits

• Bonus

• Stock options

• Fully remote work environment

• A diverse and inclusive workplace

• Interview process designed to be completed within one week