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 deployment, collaborating closely with the design team throughout the process.

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

• Review pull requests and offer constructive feedback.

• Assist team members in overcoming obstacles by identifying and resolving blockers.

• Discover reusable solutions and standardize them across the team.

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

• Drive improvements in team processes.

• Minimize the manual intervention necessary for successful releases.

• Address recurring issues by modifying the foundational setup.

• Shift verification left by broadening automated checks prior to QA.

• Facilitate planning sessions and focus the team on tasks that require decision-making.

• Establish suitable review levels and sign-off criteria.

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

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

• Support early-career engineers with development-focused tasks and learning opportunities.

• Write, review, and actively manage code ownership of features.

⛳️ Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in software engineering, including leadership roles or ownership of major projects while remaining hands-on.

• Proficient in Kotlin, Kotlin Coroutines, Kotlin Flow, Dagger 2, MVVM, Clean Architecture, Background Services, Music Player Service, Android animations, Jetpack Navigation, and JUnit testing.

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

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

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

• Comfort with the less popular aspects of the role: encouraging team members to adapt their workflows and dealing with the resulting friction.

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

• A proven history of creating solutions that the team utilizes, not solely those that enhance personal efficiency.

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

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

• A self-driven approach to enhance the application and codebase beyond what is detailed in the specifications.

• Outstanding communication skills.

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

• Links to your portfolio and LinkedIn profile.

🏝️ Benefits

• Bonus opportunities.

• Stock options.

• A diverse and inclusive work environment.