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, sustain, and enhance reliability metrics for essential features.

• Evaluate pull requests and offer constructive feedback.

• Assist engineers in overcoming obstacles by investigating and resolving technical challenges.

• Identify reusable implementations and streamline shared components.

• Ensure that shared code is thoroughly tested, clear, well-maintained, and consolidated.

• Spearhead modifications to team processes and methodologies.

• Minimize the manual interventions needed for successful releases.

• Tackle recurring issues by refining underlying systems.

• Advance verification processes by increasing automated checks prior to QA.

• Facilitate planning sessions and direct team focus towards unresolved decisions.

• Establish appropriate review standards and necessary sign-offs.

• Engage in discussions across Product, Design, and Engineering, effectively communicating team constraints.

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

• Mentor early-career engineers by offering suitable learning opportunities.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 5 years of experience in software engineering, including leading a team or managing a major surface 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.

• Recognize the significance of tests and have a strategic approach to writing them, including understanding their limitations.

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

• Some experience with the less popular aspects of the role: encouraging colleagues to modify their workflows and managing the resulting friction.

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

• A proven history of developing solutions that your team actively utilized, rather than solely those that improved your personal efficiency.

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

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

• A proactive attitude towards improving the app and codebase beyond what is detailed in the specifications.

• Exceptional communication skills.

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

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

🏝️ Benefits

• Bonus

• Stock options

• A diverse and inclusive workplace