Team Lead, Android Core Product

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

📋 Description

• Take full ownership of significant Android features from conception to release, collaborating closely with the design team throughout the process.

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

• Review pull requests and offer constructive developmental feedback.

• Assist engineers in overcoming obstacles and investigate stalled projects.

• Standardize reusable solutions and ensure maintenance of shared, tested code.

• Propel enhancements to team processes and working methodologies.

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

• Tackle recurring issues by modifying the foundational setup.

• Shift verification activities earlier in the process and broaden automated checks prior to QA.

• Lead planning sessions and identify where decisions are necessary.

• Establish review levels and required approvals.

• Engage in discussions involving Product, Design, and Engineering teams.

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

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

⛳️ Requirements

• A minimum of 5 years in software engineering, including experience leading a team or managing a major surface while remaining hands-on.

• 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 long-running background tasks.

• A strong understanding of the significance of tests and the methodologies for writing them, including limitations on what can be tested.

• An example of an initiative you introduced to a team that continued after your departure, along with a candid account of the effort required to achieve that.

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

• A perspective on which changes warrant thorough review and which do not, based on system functionality.

• A history of developing solutions that your team actively utilized, rather than solely those that enhanced your own efficiency.

• The capability to articulate how your team collaborates with AI agents, in addition to your personal approach.

• A strong intuition for product design, user empathy, and the motivation to elevate Android UI/UX beyond specifications.

• A proactive approach to enhancing the app and codebase, extending beyond the outlined specifications.

• Exceptional communication abilities.

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

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

• Participation in several technical interviews along with an assessment on a real codebase.

• Links to your portfolio and LinkedIn profile.

🏝️ Benefits

• Bonus opportunities.

• Stock options.

• A diverse and inclusive work environment.