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, sustain, and enhance reliability metrics for essential features.

• Evaluate pull requests and offer constructive feedback.

• Assist engineers by identifying and resolving obstacles.

• Create standardized reusable solutions and streamline duplicate implementations.

• Ensure shared code is tested, clear, well-maintained, and reusable.

• Drive modifications to team processes and methods of operation.

• Minimize the need for manual intervention to ensure accurate releases.

• Tackle recurring issues by enhancing foundational systems.

• Move verification processes earlier in the workflow by increasing automated testing.

• Oversee planning and prioritize tasks requiring decision-making.

• Establish review requirements and sign-off protocols.

• Engage in discussions involving Product, Design, and Engineering.

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

• Guide early-career engineers by providing meaningful work and dedicated learning opportunities.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 5 years of experience in software engineering, including experience in leading a team or owning a significant surface 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.

• Proven experience in shipping and maintaining background audio or other prolonged background tasks.

• A solid understanding of the significance of tests and the methodology for writing them, including limitations in coverage.

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

• Some comfort with the challenging aspects of the role: encouraging colleagues to alter their work practices and managing the resulting friction.

• An understanding of which changes warrant extensive review and which do not, based on system functionality.

• A history of developing solutions that your team genuinely utilized, not just those that improved your own efficiency.

• Ability to articulate how your team collaborates with AI agents, rather than focusing solely on personal practices.

• Strong product design intuition, user empathy, and a commitment to elevate Android UI/UX beyond standard specifications.

• A proactive approach to enhancing the app and codebase beyond what is specified.

• Exceptional communication skills.

• Completion of several technical interviews, along with an evaluation on a real codebase.

• Submission of portfolio and LinkedIn links.

🏝️ Benefits

• Bonus

• Stock

• A diverse and inclusive workplace