Team Lead, Android Core Product

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

📋 Description

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

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

• Review pull requests and offer constructive developmental feedback.

• Assist team members by resolving technical challenges.

• Recognize and standardize reusable solutions throughout the team.

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

• Determine when the team's processes need to evolve and lead that transformation.

• Minimize the need for manual interventions for successful releases.

• Tackle recurring issues by improving the foundational setup.

• Enhance verification processes by increasing automated checks prior to QA.

• Conduct planning sessions focused on tasks that necessitate decisions.

• Establish review levels and required approvals.

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

• Manage critical issues, take ownership of feature releases, and provide nightly builds for QA.

• Mentor early-career engineers by assigning them meaningful work and dedicated learning time.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 5 years of software engineering experience, including leading a team or managing a significant surface while remaining hands-on.

• Strong expertise in Kotlin, Kotlin Coroutines, Kotlin Flow, Dagger 2, MVVM, Clean Architecture, Background Services, Music Player Service, Android animations, Jetpack Navigation, and JUnit tests.

• Proven 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 on coverage.

• An instance of an initiative you introduced to a team that persisted even after your involvement diminished, along with an honest evaluation of the costs involved in achieving that outcome.

• Comfort in requesting changes in how colleagues work and managing the ensuing friction.

• Insight into which changes require extensive review and which do not, based on an understanding of the system's functions.

• A history of creating solutions that your team finds genuinely useful, rather than just those that enhance your own efficiency.

• Capability to articulate how your team collaborates with AI agents, not only your individual practices.

• A strong sense of product design, user empathy, and a commitment to advancing Android UI/UX beyond basic specifications.

• Self-motivation to enhance the application and codebase beyond the project specifications.

• Exceptional communication abilities.

🏝️ Benefits

• Bonus

• Stock