Team Lead, Android Core Product

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

📋 Description

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

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

• Evaluate pull requests and offer constructive feedback on development.

• Assist team members in overcoming obstacles and investigate technical challenges.

• Standardize successful practices for team-wide implementation.

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

• Propel improvements in team processes.

• Minimize manual intervention needed for successful releases.

• Tackle recurring issues by enhancing underlying systems.

• Shift verification processes earlier and broaden automated testing.

• Organize planning and prioritize tasks that require decision-making.

• Establish suitable review levels and approval processes.

• Engage in discussions with Product, Design, and Engineering teams, bringing up team constraints at the outset.

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

• Mentor early-career engineers by offering them meaningful tasks and learning opportunities.

⛳️ Requirements

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

• Proven experience in shipping and maintaining background audio or other prolonged background tasks.

• Comprehension of the significance of testing and strategies for writing tests, including what cannot be tested.

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

• Comfort with the less popular aspects of the role, which include encouraging changes in work practices and managing resulting friction.

• Insight into which changes require extensive review and which do not, based on system functionality.

• A history of building solutions that your team actively utilized, rather than just those that expedited your own work.

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

• An intuitive understanding of product design, user empathy, and the ambition to elevate Android UI/UX beyond specifications.

• A proactive approach to enhancing the application and codebase beyond the outlined specifications.

• Exceptional communication abilities.

• Completion of several technical interviews along with an assessment on a real codebase.

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

🏝️ Benefits

• Bonus

• Stock

• Diverse and inclusive workplace