Team Lead, Android Core Product

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

📋 Description

• Take ownership of significant features from conception to launch in collaboration with the design team.

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

• Evaluate pull requests and offer constructive developmental feedback.

• Assist engineers by diagnosing and resolving technical challenges.

• Standardize effective implementations for use across the team.

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

• Identify and execute enhancements to team processes.

• Minimize the manual effort necessary for successful releases.

• Resolve recurring issues by modifying underlying systems.

• Increase automated verification so that nightly builds are sent to QA for validation.

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

• Establish suitable review levels and sign-off criteria.

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

• Manage critical issues and take ownership of feature releases.

• Provide nightly builds to the QA team.

• Mentor early-career engineers by assigning meaningful work and allowing time for learning.

⛳️ Requirements

• A minimum of 5 years of experience in software engineering, including leadership experience or ownership of a significant project 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 testing.

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

• A solid understanding of the importance of testing and strategies for writing them, including limitations on coverage.

• Experience in introducing processes or practices that continue to be utilized post-implementation.

• Comfort in requesting changes to workflows and managing any resulting resistance.

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

• A history of developing tools or systems utilized by the wider team.

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

• Strong intuition for product design, user empathy, and a passion for enhancing Android UI/UX beyond specifications.

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

• Exceptional communication skills.

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

🏝️ Benefits

• Fully remote work environment.

• No physical office.

• A diverse and inclusive workplace.