Team Lead, Android Core Product

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

📋 Description

• Take full ownership of significant Android features alongside the design team, managing the process from decision-making to release.

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

• Evaluate pull requests and offer constructive feedback on development.

• Assist engineers by removing obstacles and resolving technical challenges.

• Identify solutions that can be reused by the team and streamline duplicated implementations.

• Ensure shared code is well-tested, clear, and maintainable.

• Promote enhancements to team processes and work methodologies.

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

• Tackle recurring issues by refining underlying systems.

• Shift verification processes left and expand automated checks for nightly QA builds.

• Conduct planning sessions and concentrate the team on outstanding decisions.

• Establish review criteria and sign-off procedures.

• Engage in discussions with Product, Design, and Engineering, effectively communicating team limitations.

• Manage critical issues, take charge of feature releases, and deliver nightly builds to QA.

• Mentor early-career engineers through meaningful assignments and learning opportunities.

• Participate in technical interviews and assessments using a real codebase.

⛳️ Requirements

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

• 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 tasks.

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

• A successful implementation you championed within a team that endured after your departure, along with an honest assessment of the efforts involved.

• Comfort with encouraging colleagues to adapt their workflows and managing any resulting friction.

• An understanding of which changes require extensive review and which do not, supported by insights into system functionality.

• Proven history of developing solutions that your team actively utilizes.

• Ability to articulate how your team collaborates with AI agents.

• Intuition for product design, empathy for users, and a commitment to elevating Android UI/UX beyond standard specifications.

• Self-motivation to enhance the application and codebase beyond what is outlined in specifications.

• Strong communication skills.

• Submission of links to your portfolio and LinkedIn profile is requested with your application.

• Experience with open source Android projects, or with iOS, Web, or NodeJS, is advantageous but not mandatory.

🏝️ Benefits

• Bonus

• Stock

• A diverse and inclusive workplace