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 to release, collaborating closely with the design team throughout the process.

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

• Review pull requests and offer constructive feedback to team members.

• Assist engineers by investigating and resolving any work bottlenecks.

• Identify successful implementations that should be adopted as team standards and advocate for their usage.

• Maintain shared components to ensure they are well-tested, clear, and consolidated.

• Lead initiatives to improve team processes.

• Minimize the need for manual intervention during release processes.

• Tackle recurring issues by modifying the foundational setup.

• Enhance verification by expanding automated checks early in the development cycle.

• Facilitate planning sessions and direct the team’s focus on unresolved decisions.

• Establish appropriate review levels and sign-off requirements.

• Engage in discussions with Product, Design, and Engineering teams, communicating team constraints proactively.

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

• Mentor and provide learning opportunities for early-career engineers.

⛳️ Requirements

• A minimum of 5 years of software engineering experience, with a background in leading a team or owning a significant surface while remaining hands-on.

• 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 long-running background tasks.

• A solid understanding of the importance of testing and how to approach writing tests, including limitations.

• An example of a practice you introduced to a team that continued after your involvement, along with an honest assessment of what it took to achieve this.

• Comfortable with prompting colleagues to change their work habits and managing the resulting friction.

• Insight into which changes require thorough review and which do not, based on the system's functionality.

• A proven history of developing solutions that are genuinely utilized by the team.

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

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

• Self-motivated to enhance the app and codebase beyond what is specified.

• Outstanding communication skills.

• Completion of several technical interviews along with an assessment on a live codebase.

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

🏝️ Benefits

• Fully remote work environment.

• No physical office presence required.

• A diverse and inclusive workplace culture.