Team Lead, Android Core Product

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

📋 Description

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

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

• Evaluate pull requests and give constructive feedback.

• Assist team members by removing obstacles and resolving technical challenges.

• Identify reusable implementations and standardize them within the team.

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

• Lead initiatives to improve team processes and methodologies.

• Minimize the manual intervention required for successful releases.

• Tackle recurring issues by modifying underlying systems.

• Shift verification to earlier stages through increased automation.

• Conduct planning sessions and prioritize tasks that necessitate decisions.

• Establish appropriate review levels and approval processes.

• Engage in discussions with Product, Design, and Engineering teams, communicating team constraints proactively.

• Manage critical issues, take ownership of feature releases, and provide nightly builds for quality assurance.

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

⛳️ Requirements

• A minimum of 5 years of software engineering experience, with experience leading a team or owning a significant feature while remaining hands-on.

• Strong proficiency 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-duration background tasks.

• An understanding of the importance of tests and strategies for writing them, including limitations.

• A successful initiative you introduced to a team that continued after you stopped advocating for it, along with an honest assessment of the costs involved.

• Comfort with the less popular aspects of the role: encouraging changes in work habits and managing the resulting friction.

• A perspective on which changes require intensive review and which do not, based on system functionality.

• A history of building solutions that your team actually utilized, rather than solely those that improved your own efficiency.

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

• An instinct for product design, empathy for users, and a commitment to advancing Android UI/UX beyond specifications.

• A self-motivated drive to enhance the application and codebase beyond the outlined specifications.

• Exceptional communication skills.

• Submission of a portfolio and LinkedIn profile is required with your application.

• Bonus: Experience in building, maintaining, or contributing to open-source Android projects.

• Bonus: Familiarity with iOS, Web, or NodeJS.

• Multiple technical interviews followed by an assessment on a real codebase.

🏝️ Benefits

• Bonus

• Stock options

• A diverse and inclusive workplace