Team Lead, Android Core Product

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

📋 Description

• Take ownership of key features from conception to release, collaborating closely with the design team throughout the process.

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

• Review pull requests and offer constructive feedback.

• Assist team members by resolving technical obstacles.

• Recognize successful implementations that should set team standards and promote their adoption.

• Oversee shared components through thorough testing, documentation, and consolidation efforts.

• Initiate adjustments to team processes as necessary.

• Minimize manual interventions needed for successful releases.

• Resolve recurring issues by altering underlying systems.

• Promote earlier verification by increasing automated checks prior to QA.

• Facilitate planning sessions to ensure team focus on tasks requiring decision-making.

• Establish suitable review levels and necessary sign-offs.

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

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

• Mentor early-career engineers by offering learning opportunities.

• Write, review, and take ownership of production code while leading the team.

⛳️ Requirements

• A minimum of 5 years of software engineering experience, including a background in leading a team or overseeing a major component 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 extended background tasks.

• Comprehension of the significance of tests and approaches to writing them, including limitations on coverage.

• An example of an initiative you introduced to a team that persisted after your involvement, along with a candid account of the effort required to achieve it.

• Comfort with the less popular aspects of the job: encouraging team members to modify their working methods and managing the resulting friction.

• A perspective on which changes necessitate extensive review and which do not, based on system functionality.

• A proven record of developing solutions that your team actively utilizes, not solely those that enhance your own efficiency.

• The ability to articulate how your team collaborates with AI agents, beyond personal practices.

• An intuitive understanding of product design, user empathy, and a commitment to advancing Android UI/UX beyond basic specifications.

• A self-motivated drive to enhance the application and codebase beyond the outlined specifications.

• Strong communication abilities.

• Bonus: Experience in building, maintaining, or contributing to open-source Android projects.

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

• A series of technical interviews along with an evaluation on a real codebase.

• Please include links to your portfolio and LinkedIn profile.

🏝️ Benefits

• Fully distributed work environment.

• No physical office.

• A diverse and inclusive workplace culture.

• Interview process designed to be completed within one week.