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 inception to release, collaborating closely with the Design team.

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

• Evaluate pull requests and provide constructive feedback on development.

• Assist engineers in overcoming obstacles and address team challenges directly.

• Identify and establish standardized reusable implementations within the team.

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

• Spearhead improvements to team processes and methodologies.

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

• Tackle recurring issues by modifying underlying systems.

• Broaden automated verification efforts and advance testing earlier in the development cycle.

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

• Establish review requirements and sign-off protocols.

• Engage in discussions with Product, Design, and Engineering teams.

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

• Mentor early-career engineers with impactful projects and dedicated learning time.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 5 years of software engineering experience, with proven leadership in a team or ownership of a major surface 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 shipping and maintaining background audio or other prolonged background processes.

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

• An example of an initiative you introduced to the team that remained effective after your departure, along with a candid account of the effort involved.

• Comfort in encouraging team members to adapt their work habits and the ability to manage resulting friction.

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

• A proven history of developing solutions that your team actively utilized.

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

• A strong sense of product design intuition, user empathy, and a commitment to enhancing Android UI/UX beyond specifications.

• A proactive approach to improving the app and codebase beyond requirements.

• Exceptional communication abilities.

• Successful completion of several technical interviews and an assessment on an actual codebase.

• Include links to your portfolio and LinkedIn in your application.

🏝️ Benefits

• Fully remote work environment.

• No physical office.

• A diverse and inclusive workplace.