Team Lead, Android Core Product

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

📋 Description

• Take ownership of significant features from inception to deployment in collaboration with the design team.

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

• Evaluate pull requests and offer constructive developmental feedback.

• Remove obstacles for engineers and investigate any stalled tasks.

• Standardize reusable solutions within the team and eliminate redundant implementations.

• Ensure shared components are tested, comprehensible, and maintainable.

• Drive changes to team processes.

• Minimize manual intervention necessary for successful releases.

• Tackle recurring issues by modifying underlying systems.

• Broaden automated verification and shift testing to earlier stages of development.

• Conduct planning sessions focused on unresolved decisions.

• Establish appropriate review levels and sign-off criteria.

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

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

• Mentor early-career engineers through meaningful tasks and learning opportunities.

⛳️ Requirements

• A minimum of 5 years of experience in software engineering, including leadership of a team or ownership of a significant component while maintaining hands-on involvement.

• 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.

• Understanding of the value of tests and how to approach writing them, including limitations of coverage.

• An example of a change you introduced to a team that persisted beyond your advocacy, along with an honest assessment of the effort involved.

• Comfort with encouraging team members to alter their workflows and managing the resulting friction.

• Insight on which changes require thorough review and which do not, based on system functionality.

• Proven history of developing tools that your team actively utilizes.

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

• Product design intuition, user empathy, and a desire to elevate Android UI/UX beyond specifications.

• Self-motivated to enhance the application and codebase beyond given specifications.

• Exceptional communication skills.

• Experience with open-source Android projects is an advantage.

• Familiarity with iOS, Web, or NodeJS is a plus.

🏝️ Benefits

• Bonus

• Stock options

• A diverse and inclusive workplace