Team Lead, Android Core Product

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

📋 Description

• Take ownership of significant core Android product features from design through to release, collaborating closely with the design team.

• Write and review code while actively managing individual features.

• Be responsible for maintaining and enhancing reliability metrics for essential features.

• Review pull requests and offer constructive feedback for development.

• Assist engineers by identifying and resolving technical challenges.

• Recognize reusable solutions for the team and streamline duplicated implementations.

• Ensure shared components are well-tested, clear, and reusable.

• Drive changes in team processes and workflows.

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

• Tackle recurring issues by modifying underlying systems.

• Promote early verification by expanding automated checks prior to QA.

• Lead planning sessions focusing on work that necessitates decision-making.

• Establish appropriate levels of review and approval requirements.

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

• Manage critical issues, oversee feature releases, and provide nightly builds for QA.

• Assist early-career engineers by offering meaningful projects and dedicated learning time.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 5 years of experience in software engineering, including leading a team or owning a significant feature 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 long-running background tasks.

• Awareness of the significance of tests and strategies for writing them, including areas that cannot be covered.

• Proven ability to implement a team practice that persists after the candidate has stepped back, including a candid assessment of its costs.

• Comfort in requesting changes in workflow and managing any resulting friction.

• Capability to assess which changes require extensive review versus those that do not, based on system behavior.

• History of creating solutions that the team actively utilizes.

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

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

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

• Strong communication skills.

• Application must include links to a portfolio and LinkedIn profile.

• Bonus: Experience in building, maintaining, or contributing to 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.

• Opportunity to collaborate with a global team.

• Technical interviews and assessments on real codebases completed within one week (a perk of the interview process).