Team Lead, Android Core Product

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

📋 Description

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

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

• Review pull requests and deliver constructive feedback to peers.

• Assist engineers in overcoming challenges by investigating and resolving complex issues.

• Identify reusable solutions within the team and streamline duplicated implementations.

• Ensure shared code remains tested, organized, well-maintained, and consolidated.

• Drive improvements in team processes and methodologies.

• Minimize the need for manual intervention during release processes.

• Tackle recurring issues by enhancing underlying systems.

• Shift verification processes left and broaden the scope of automated checks.

• Facilitate planning sessions to ensure the team focuses on tasks that require decision-making.

• Identify appropriate levels of review and necessary approvals.

• Engage in discussions involving Product, Design, and Engineering, and communicate team constraints proactively.

• Manage critical issues, oversee feature releases, and provide nightly builds for quality assurance.

• Mentor early-career engineers with a focus on learning and professional development.

⛳️ Requirements

• A minimum of 5 years of software engineering experience, including leadership of a team 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 testing.

• Experience in shipping and maintaining background audio or other long-running background processes.

• Strong understanding of the significance of testing and strategies for writing effective tests, including limitations.

• A noteworthy contribution you made to a team that persisted after your involvement ended, along with an honest assessment of the effort required to achieve it.

• Familiarity with the less favorable aspects of the role: encouraging colleagues to adapt their working methods and managing the resulting friction.

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

• A history of developing solutions that are utilized by the team, not just those that enhance personal productivity.

• The capability to articulate how your team collaborates with AI agents, beyond personal methods.

• An intuitive understanding of product design, user empathy, and a commitment to advancing Android UI/UX beyond specifications.

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

• Exceptional communication skills.

• Experience building, maintaining, or contributing to open source Android projects (bonus).

• Familiarity with iOS, Web, or NodeJS (bonus).

🏝️ Benefits

• Bonus

• Stock

• Diverse and inclusive workplace