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.

• Review pull requests and offer constructive feedback to team members.

• Assist team members by resolving technical obstacles.

• Standardize shared solutions and eliminate duplicate implementations.

• Maintain shared components to ensure they are well-tested, clear, and reusable.

• Drive changes in team processes and methodologies.

• Minimize manual intervention necessary for successful releases.

• Address recurring issues by modifying the underlying configuration.

• Move verification earlier in the process by increasing automated checks.

• Facilitate planning sessions focused on tasks that require decision-making.

• Establish suitable review levels and sign-off protocols.

• Engage in discussions with Product, Design, and Engineering teams, communicating team constraints proactively.

• Manage critical issues, take ownership of feature releases, and provide nightly builds for Quality Assurance.

• Mentor early-career engineers through learning-oriented tasks and development opportunities.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 5 years of software engineering experience, including leadership of a team or ownership of a significant component 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 tests.

• Proven experience in shipping and maintaining background audio or other extended background tasks.

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

• An example of an initiative you implemented that persisted after your involvement ended, along with an honest assessment of the investment required to achieve it.

• Comfort with the less popular aspects of the role: encouraging others to modify their work habits and managing the resulting friction.

• Insight into which changes require extensive review and which do not, based on system functionality.

• A history of creating solutions that the team genuinely utilizes, rather than only enhancements that benefit you personally.

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

• An intuition for product design, empathy for users, and the ambition to elevate Android UI/UX beyond specifications.

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

• Exceptional communication abilities.

• Submission of portfolio and LinkedIn links is required with the application.

• 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 work environment