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.

• Help engineers overcome obstacles by investigating delayed tasks.

• Recognize and standardize reusable implementations across the team.

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

• Lead enhancements to team processes.

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

• Tackle recurring issues by modifying the foundational setup.

• Promote early verification through increased automated checks.

• Facilitate planning sessions and concentrate the team's efforts on work that requires decision-making.

• Establish review criteria and define ownership for approvals.

• Engage in discussions related to Product, Design, and Engineering.

• Manage critical situations, oversee feature releases, and supply nightly builds for QA.

• Provide learning opportunities to early-career engineers.

• Write code, review code, and actively manage features.

• Conduct technical interviews and assess candidates on a real codebase.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 5 years of software engineering experience, including leadership of a team or ownership of a significant surface 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 long-running background tasks.

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

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

• Some familiarity with encouraging changes in work habits and managing the resulting friction.

• Insights on which modifications necessitate thorough reviews and which do not, supported by an understanding of system functionality.

• A proven history of creating solutions that your team actively utilized, rather than just those that enhanced your efficiency.

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

• An intuitive grasp of product design, user empathy, and the ambition to advance Android UI/UX beyond the specified requirements.

• A self-driven approach to enhancing the application and codebase beyond the outlined specifications.

• Exceptional communication skills.

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

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

• Successful completion of multiple technical interviews along with an assessment on a real codebase.

• Submission of a portfolio and LinkedIn links is required with your application.

🏝️ Benefits

• Bonus

• Stock

• A diverse and inclusive workplace