Team Lead, Android Core Product

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

📋 Description

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

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

• Review pull requests and offer constructive insights.

• Assist team members in overcoming technical obstacles.

• Streamline shared implementations and maintain well-tested, clear shared components.

• Lead initiatives to modify team processes and working methodologies.

• Minimize the need for manual interventions for successful releases.

• Tackle recurring issues by modifying underlying systems.

• Expand automated verification processes and incorporate testing earlier in the development cycle.

• Conduct planning sessions and prioritize tasks that require decision-making.

• Establish review criteria and sign-off protocols.

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

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

• Mentor early-career engineers by offering learning opportunities.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 5 years of experience in software engineering, including leadership roles or ownership of significant projects 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 deploying and maintaining background audio or other long-running processes.

• Strong understanding of the importance of testing and approaches to writing tests, including limitations.

• An example of an initiative you introduced to a team that persisted after your involvement, along with a candid account of the effort required to achieve that.

• Some familiarity with the less popular aspects of the role: encouraging team members to adapt their workflows and managing the resulting friction.

• A perspective on which changes necessitate thorough review and which do not, justified by the system's functionality.

• A history of developing tools or features that are genuinely utilized by your team, not just those that enhance your own efficiency.

• The capability to articulate how your team collaborates with AI agents, not just your individual approach.

• A strong intuition for product design, empathy for users, and a commitment to advancing Android UI/UX beyond the specifications.

• A proactive attitude toward enhancing the app and codebase beyond the outlined specifications.

• Exceptional communication abilities.

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

🏝️ Benefits

• Bonus

• Stock

• Diverse and inclusive workplace