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 on development.

• Resolve technical obstacles to assist team members in moving forward.

• Standardize successful implementations for use across the team.

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

• Lead improvements to team processes.

• Minimize the need for manual interventions during release procedures.

• Tackle recurring issues by modifying foundational systems.

• Increase automated verification and integrate testing earlier in the development lifecycle.

• Conduct planning sessions focused on unresolved decisions.

• Establish review criteria and approval workflows.

• Engage in discussions with Product, Design, and Engineering teams, effectively communicating team limitations.

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

• Mentor junior team members.

• Write, review, and directly handle code for features.

⛳️ Requirements

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

• Proven experience in shipping and maintaining applications with background audio or other long-running background tasks.

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

• An example of a process or practice you introduced that remained after your involvement, along with a candid assessment of the effort required to implement it.

• Comfort with promoting changes in work practices, even when it creates initial friction.

• Insight into which changes necessitate thorough review and which do not, based on the system's functionality.

• A history of creating tools or features that have been widely utilized by the team, rather than solely those that increased personal efficiency.

• The capability to articulate how your team collaborates with AI agents, not just your individual contributions.

• An intuitive sense for product design, user empathy, and a commitment to advancing Android UI/UX beyond basic specifications.

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

• Outstanding communication skills.

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

• Inclusion of portfolio and LinkedIn links 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 options

• A diverse and inclusive workplace