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 decision-making process and release.

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

• Evaluate pull requests and offer constructive feedback.

• Assist engineers by identifying and resolving obstacles.

• Discover reusable solutions and integrate shared components.

• Ensure shared components are tested, clear, and well-maintained.

• Lead modifications to team processes.

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

• Tackle recurring issues by altering the foundational setup.

• Advance verification processes by broadening automated checks.

• Conduct planning sessions and direct team focus on tasks that require decision-making.

• Establish review criteria and sign-off responsibilities.

• Engage in discussions with Product, Design, and Engineering to highlight team constraints early on.

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

• Mentor early-career engineers with development opportunities focused on learning.

⛳️ Requirements

• A minimum of 5 years of experience in software engineering, including leadership experience or ownership of significant projects 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 testing.

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

• Comprehensive understanding of the significance of tests and strategies for writing them, including areas that cannot be tested.

• An example of a contribution you made to a team that persisted after your involvement ended, along with an honest assessment of the effort required to achieve that.

• Comfort in encouraging changes in work habits and managing the resulting friction.

• Insight into which changes necessitate extensive review and which do not, based on the system's functionality.

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

• Capability to articulate how your team collaborates with AI agents, beyond your individual approach.

• A strong sense of product design, user empathy, and a commitment to advancing Android UI/UX beyond the specifications.

• Initiative to enhance the application and codebase beyond what is specified.

• Exceptional communication skills.

• Completion of several technical interviews and an assessment on an actual codebase.

• Submission of portfolio and LinkedIn links with the application.

🏝️ Benefits

• Bonus

• Stock