Team Lead, Android Core Product

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

📋 Description

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

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

• Review pull requests and offer constructive feedback on development.

• Assist engineers by removing obstacles and troubleshooting technical challenges.

• Standardize reusable components across the team.

• Ensure shared code remains tested, clear, well-maintained, and consolidated.

• Drive improvements in team processes and methodologies.

• Minimize the need for manual intervention for successful releases.

• Tackle recurring issues by modifying foundational systems.

• Advance verification processes and expand automated testing.

• Facilitate planning sessions focused on tasks requiring decisions.

• Establish suitable review levels and approval criteria.

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

• Address critical issues, take ownership of feature releases, and provide nightly builds for QA.

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

• Conduct technical interviews and assess real codebases during the recruitment process.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 5 years of software engineering experience, including team leadership or ownership of a major product 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 operations.

• Comprehension of the significance of tests and strategies for writing them, including limitations on coverage.

• An example of an initiative you introduced to a team that persisted after you ceased promoting it, along with an honest assessment of the effort involved.

• Some familiarity with the more challenging aspects of the role: persuading team members to alter their work habits and navigating the resulting friction.

• An informed perspective on which changes necessitate extensive review and which do not, based on the system's functionality.

• A history of developing solutions that your team actively utilized, rather than solely those that improved your own efficiency.

• The capacity to articulate how your team interacts with AI agents, beyond your personal experiences.

• An intuition for product design, empathy for users, and a passion for enhancing Android UI/UX beyond the specifications.

• A proactive approach to improving the app and codebase beyond what's specified.

• Exceptional communication skills.

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

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

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

🏝️ Benefits

• Bonus

• Stock