Team Lead, Android Core Product

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

📋 Description

• Take ownership of significant Android features from conception to release, collaborating closely with Design.

• Oversee, enhance, and ensure the reliability metrics of essential features.

• Evaluate pull requests and offer constructive developmental feedback.

• Assist engineers in overcoming challenging problems.

• Standardize effective implementations for the entire team to utilize.

• Maintain well-tested, clear, and consolidated shared components.

• Drive improvements in team processes.

• Minimize manual intervention necessary for successful releases.

• Tackle recurring issues by modifying underlying systems.

• Broaden automated verification so that nightly QA builds can provide assurance.

• Conduct planning focused on unresolved decisions.

• Establish suitable review levels and sign-off protocols.

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

• Manage critical issues, oversee feature releases, and deliver nightly builds to QA.

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

⛳️ Requirements

• A minimum of 5 years in software engineering, including experience leading a team or managing a significant project 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 tests.

• Experience in shipping and maintaining background audio or other prolonged background tasks.

• A solid understanding of the significance of tests and how to approach writing them, including aspects that cannot be tested.

• Proven experience in implementing a lasting team practice or change.

• Comfortable requesting changes in work practices and managing resultant friction.

• Ability to discern which changes require extensive review and which do not.

• A history of building solutions that the rest of the team utilizes.

• Capability to articulate how the team collaborates with AI agents.

• Intuition for product design, user empathy, and a desire to enhance Android UI/UX.

• Self-motivation to improve the app and codebase beyond specifications.

• Exceptional communication abilities.

• Portfolio and LinkedIn links are requested with the application.

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

• Bonus: experience with open-source Android projects.

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

🏝️ Benefits

• Fully remote work environment with no office requirements.

• A diverse and inclusive workplace culture.

• Streamlined interview process aimed for completion within one week.