Team Lead, Android Core Product

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

📋 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 offer constructive feedback.

• Assist team members by diagnosing and resolving obstacles.

• Standardize solutions for collective team utilization.

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

• Spearhead modifications to team processes.

• Minimize manual intervention necessary for successful releases.

• Tackle recurring issues by altering foundational systems.

• Broaden automated verification processes and shift testing to earlier stages.

• Organize planning and prioritize tasks that require decision-making.

• Establish review criteria and sign-off protocols.

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

• Manage critical situations, take charge of feature releases, and deliver nightly builds for QA.

• Mentor early-career engineers through learning-focused tasks and development opportunities.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 5 years of experience in software engineering, including leadership experience or ownership of a major project 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 ongoing background tasks.

• Comprehension of the significance of testing and strategies for writing tests, including limitations.

• A successful initiative you implemented within a team that persisted after your involvement, along with an honest assessment of the effort required to achieve this.

• Comfort with the less popular aspects of the role: encouraging changes in work practices and managing the associated friction.

• Insight into which changes warrant extensive review and which do not, based on system functionality.

• Proven history of developing solutions that are utilized by your team, not just enhancements that improve your own efficiency.

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

• A strong intuition for product design, user empathy, and motivation to elevate Android UI/UX beyond initial specifications.

• Self-motivation to enhance the app and codebase beyond what is explicitly stated in the specification.

• Exceptional communication skills.

• Completion of several technical interviews accompanied by an evaluation on a real codebase.

• Links to your portfolio and LinkedIn profile.

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

• Bonus: Knowledge of iOS, Web, or NodeJS.

🏝️ Benefits

• Bonus

• Stock options

• A diverse and inclusive work environment