Team Lead, Android Core Product

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

📋 Description

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

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

• Evaluate pull requests and offer constructive developmental feedback.

• Assist team members in overcoming technical challenges and removing obstacles.

• Standardize successful implementations within the team.

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

• Advocate for changes to team processes.

• Minimize the manual intervention needed for successful releases.

• Resolve recurring issues by improving foundational systems.

• Increase automated verification and prioritize early testing.

• Facilitate planning sessions and concentrate the team's efforts on unresolved tasks.

• Establish review requirements and sign-off protocols.

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

• Manage critical issues, oversee feature releases, and provide nightly builds for Quality Assurance.

• Mentor early-career engineers with meaningful projects and learning opportunities.

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

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 5 years of experience in software engineering, including leading a team or owning 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.

• A strong understanding of the significance of tests and the strategies for writing them, including what cannot be covered.

• An example of an initiative you implemented that remained effective after your involvement, along with an honest account of the costs incurred to achieve it.

• Some familiarity with the less popular aspects of the role: encouraging people to revise their work habits and managing the resultant friction.

• A perspective on which changes require thorough review and which do not, grounded in an understanding of the system's functionality.

• A proven history of developing solutions that are genuinely utilized by your team, rather than solely those that enhance your own efficiency.

• The capability to articulate how your team collaborates with AI agents, in addition to your personal contributions.

• An intuitive grasp of product design, user empathy, and a determination to advance Android UI/UX beyond the specifications.

• A proactive approach to enhancing the application and codebase beyond the outlined specifications.

• Exceptional communication skills.

• Completion of several technical interviews along with an assessment on an actual codebase.

• A portfolio and LinkedIn profile links included with your application.

🏝️ Benefits

• Bonus

• Stock options

• A diverse and inclusive workplace