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 alongside the design team.

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

• Evaluate pull requests and offer constructive critiques.

• Remove obstacles for engineers and address team challenges.

• Standardize reusable solutions throughout the team.

• Ensure the maintenance of tested, clear, and consolidated shared components.

• Propel modifications to team processes.

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

• Tackle recurring issues by refining foundational systems.

• Broaden automated verification and integrate testing earlier in the workflow.

• Lead planning sessions and prioritize work that requires decision-making.

• Establish review criteria and sign-off protocols.

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

• Manage critical issues, oversee feature releases, and deliver nightly builds to QA.

• Foster learning and development for early-career engineers.

• Conduct technical interviews and evaluate candidates using a real codebase as part of the hiring process.

⛳️ Requirements

• 5+ years of software engineering experience, including leadership of a team or ownership of significant features while remaining hands-on.

• Strong 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-duration background tasks.

• Knowledge of the significance of tests and strategies for writing them, including aspects that cannot be tested.

• An example of a contribution you made to a team that continued after your involvement, along with an honest reflection on the cost of achieving that change.

• Comfort in prompting colleagues to adjust their work methods and managing the resulting friction.

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

• A proven history of developing solutions that your team actively utilized.

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

• An instinct for product design, empathy for users, and a desire to elevate Android UI/UX beyond the specifications.

• Initiative to enhance the app and codebase beyond what is outlined in the specifications.

• Exceptional communication abilities.

• Links to your portfolio and LinkedIn profile.

🏝️ Benefits

• Bonus

• Stock