Team Lead, Android Core Product

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

📋 Description

• Take full ownership of major features from inception through to release, collaborating closely with Design.

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

• Evaluate pull requests and offer constructive developmental feedback.

• Resolve team members' obstacles by directly investigating impediments.

• Identify reusable solutions and streamline shared components.

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

• Drive improvements in team processes and methodologies.

• Minimize the manual intervention needed for successful releases.

• Tackle persistent issues by modifying underlying systems.

• Shift verification processes earlier in the development cycle and broaden automated checks prior to QA.

• Facilitate planning sessions to concentrate the team's efforts on decision-making tasks.

• Establish appropriate review levels and sign-off criteria.

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

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

• Mentor early-career engineers by providing meaningful tasks and opportunities for learning.

⛳️ Requirements

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

• Strong 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 prolonged background processes.

• A solid understanding of the significance of testing and strategies for writing tests, including limitations.

• Proven experience in implementing lasting team practices or changes.

• Comfort in encouraging changes in workflows and managing any resulting friction.

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

• Documented history of creating tools or solutions utilized by the broader team.

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

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

• Self-motivated to enhance the app and codebase beyond the original specifications.

• Exceptional communication skills.

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

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

🏝️ Benefits

• Fully remote work environment.

• No physical office space.

• A diverse and inclusive workplace culture.