Team Lead, Android Core Product

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

📋 Description

• Take ownership of significant Android features from conception to release, collaborating closely with Design.

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

• Review pull requests and offer constructive developmental feedback.

• Assist engineers by investigating and resolving complex issues.

• Standardize successful implementations for the entire team to utilize.

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

• Enhance team processes and determine when work methods should be modified.

• Minimize manual intervention needed for successful releases.

• Address recurring issues by modifying underlying systems.

• Broaden automated verification and prioritize testing earlier in the process.

• Conduct planning focused on unresolved decisions.

• Establish review requirements and ownership of approvals.

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

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

• Mentor early-career engineers with learning opportunities and development time.

⛳️ Requirements

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

• 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.

• Comprehension of the importance of tests and strategies for writing them, including limitations on coverage.

• An initiative introduced to a team that persisted after the end of implementation ownership.

• Comfort in requesting changes in work practices and managing the resulting friction.

• Ability to identify which changes warrant thorough review.

• Proven history of building solutions utilized by the broader team.

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

• Intuition in product design, user empathy, and a passion for enhancing Android UI/UX.

• Self-motivation to enhance the app and codebase beyond defined specifications.

• Strong communication skills.

• Links to portfolio and LinkedIn profile are requested 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

• Fully remote work environment

• No physical office

• A diverse and inclusive workplace