Team Lead, Android Core Product

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

📋 Description

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

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

• Evaluate pull requests and offer constructive developmental feedback.

• Assist team members in overcoming technical challenges.

• Standardize reusable solutions within the team.

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

• Drive improvements in team processes.

• Minimize the need for manual intervention during proper releases.

• Address recurring issues by modifying underlying systems.

• Shift verification earlier in the process and broaden automated checks.

• Conduct planning sessions focused on unresolved decisions.

• Establish review requirements and approval processes.

• Engage in discussions with Product, Design, and Engineering teams.

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

• Mentor early-career engineers with substantial work and learning opportunities.

• Write, review, and take a hands-on approach to coding and feature ownership.

⛳️ Requirements

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

• Understanding the significance of testing and how to approach writing tests, including limitations of coverage.

• A successful initiative you introduced to a team that persisted after your involvement, along with an honest evaluation of the effort it required.

• Comfort with encouraging colleagues to alter their work methods and managing any resulting friction.

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

• A proven history of building tools that are actively utilized by your team.

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

• Intuition for product design, user empathy, and a motivation to advance Android UI/UX beyond specifications.

• Self-driven to enhance the app and codebase beyond what is specified.

• Exceptional communication skills.

• Portfolio and LinkedIn links are requested with the application.

• Several technical interviews along with an assessment on a real codebase.

• Experience with open-source Android projects, iOS, Web, or NodeJS is considered a bonus.

🏝️ Benefits

• Bonus

• Stock

• 100% remote work environment

• No office

• Interview process designed to be completed within one week