Team Lead, Android Core Product

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

📋 Description

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

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

• Evaluate pull requests and offer constructive feedback on development.

• Remove obstacles for engineers and tackle technical challenges.

• Recognize reusable solutions and standardize practices across the team.

• Uphold tested, clear, and consolidated shared components.

• Drive modifications to team processes and methodologies.

• Minimize the need for manual intervention to ensure accurate releases.

• Address persistent issues by altering foundational systems.

• Broaden automated verification and shift testing to earlier stages in the development cycle.

• Facilitate planning and focus the team's efforts on unresolved decisions.

• Establish review criteria and ownership of approvals.

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

• Manage critical issues, take charge of feature releases, and deliver nightly builds for QA.

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

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 5 years of experience in software engineering, including leadership of a team or ownership of 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 processes.

• Comprehension of the significance of tests and approaches to writing them, including limitations.

• A successful initiative you introduced to a team that continued after your involvement, along with an honest reflection on the effort it took to achieve this.

• Comfort in addressing the less popular aspects of the job: encouraging changes in work habits and managing the resulting friction.

• An informed perspective on which changes necessitate extensive review and which do not, based on system functionality.

• A proven history of creating solutions that the team actively utilizes, not just those that enhance your own efficiency.

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

• Intuition for product design, user empathy, and a commitment to advancing Android UI/UX beyond the specified requirements.

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

• Strong communication skills.

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

• Inclusion of portfolio and LinkedIn links with your application.

🏝️ Benefits

• Bonus

• Stock

• Diverse and inclusive workplace