Team Lead, Android Core Product

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

📋 Description

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

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

• Evaluate pull requests and offer constructive feedback.

• Assist team members in overcoming obstacles by investigating stalled tasks.

• Identify and standardize solutions for collective team use.

• Oversee shared components through testing, documentation, and consolidation efforts.

• Drive improvements in team processes.

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

• Tackle recurring issues by modifying underlying systems.

• Shift verification earlier in the process by increasing automated checks.

• Conduct planning sessions focused on tasks that require decision-making.

• Establish suitable review levels and sign-off criteria.

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

• Address critical issues, oversee feature releases, and provide nightly builds for Quality Assurance.

• Mentor early-career engineers through meaningful projects and learning opportunities.

• Write and review code while taking hands-on ownership of features.

⛳️ Requirements

• A minimum of 5 years of software engineering experience, including leading a team or owning a significant surface area, 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.

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

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

• An example of an initiative you introduced to a team that persisted after your involvement ended, along with an honest account of the effort required to implement it.

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

• Insight into which changes necessitate thorough review and which do not, based on system functionality.

• A proven record of building tools that your team actively uses, rather than just those that enhance your own efficiency.

• The capability to articulate how your team collaborates with AI agents, not just your individual contributions.

• An intuition for product design, user empathy, and the motivation to advance Android UI/UX beyond the specifications.

• A proactive approach to enhancing the application and codebase beyond what is specified.

• Exceptional communication abilities.

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

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

• Applications must include links to your portfolio and LinkedIn profile.

🏝️ Benefits

• Bonus

• Stock options

• Fully remote work environment

• A comprehensive interview process consisting of several technical interviews and an assessment on a real codebase

• Interview process designed to be completed within one week