Team Lead, Android Core Product

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

📋 Description

• Take ownership of significant features from inception to launch, collaborating closely with the design team throughout the process.

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

• Evaluate pull requests and provide constructive feedback on development.

• Assist team members by resolving technical challenges.

• Standardize successful implementations for use across the team.

• Maintain well-tested, clear, and consolidated shared components.

• Identify and execute improvements in team processes.

• Minimize the manual intervention required for successful releases.

• Tackle recurring issues by modifying underlying systems.

• Shift verification processes left by increasing automated checks before quality assurance.

• Conduct planning focused on unresolved decisions.

• Assess necessary review levels and required approvals.

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

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

• Mentor early-career engineers with learning-focused tasks and development time.

• Write and review code while leading individual features as a hands-on team leader.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 5 years of experience in software engineering, including leadership roles or ownership of significant projects 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 tests.

• Experience in shipping and maintaining background audio or other prolonged background processes.

• Knowledge of the significance of testing and the approach to writing them, including limitations.

• Proven experience in introducing a team practice that remained after implementation.

• Comfort in advocating for changes in work practices and managing any resulting friction.

• Ability to discern which changes require extensive review and which do not, based on system behavior.

• History of building systems utilized by the broader team.

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

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

• Self-motivation to enhance the app and codebase beyond the given specifications.

• Outstanding communication skills.

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

🏝️ Benefits

• Fully distributed work environment.

• No physical office.

• Diverse and inclusive workplace culture.

• A series of technical interviews along with an assessment on a real codebase, aiming for process completion within one week.