Team Lead, Android Core Product

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

📋 Description

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

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

• Review pull requests and offer constructive developmental feedback.

• Assist engineers in overcoming obstacles and investigate ongoing issues.

• Standardize solutions and streamline duplicated shared components.

• Ensure that shared components are tested, organized, and maintainable.

• Drive improvements in team processes.

• Minimize the manual interventions required for successful releases.

• Resolve recurring issues by modifying the underlying systems.

• Shift verification processes earlier by expanding automated checks.

• Lead planning sessions and direct the team's focus on work that necessitates decision-making.

• Define the depth of reviews and the necessary approvals.

• Engage in discussions related to Product, Design, and Engineering.

• Manage critical issues, oversee feature releases, and provide nightly builds to QA.

• Mentor early-career engineers with appropriately challenging tasks and learning opportunities.

• Write and review code while actively owning features.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 5 years of experience in software engineering, including leadership experience 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 shipping and maintaining background audio or other long-running background tasks.

• Recognize the importance of testing and the approach to writing tests, including limitations.

• A significant contribution made to a team that continued after your departure, along with an honest account of the effort it took to implement.

• Some familiarity with encouraging changes in work habits among team members, accepting the resulting friction.

• An understanding of which changes require extensive reviews and which do not, supported by an argument based on system functionality.

• A proven history of developing solutions that are actively used by your team.

• Capability to articulate how your team collaborates with AI agents.

• Strong intuition for product design, user empathy, and a desire to elevate Android UI/UX beyond the specifications provided.

• A self-motivated approach to enhancing the app and codebase beyond the outlined specifications.

• Exceptional communication skills.

• Completion of multiple technical interviews along with an assessment on a real codebase.

• Submission of a portfolio and LinkedIn profile links.

• Bonus: Experience in building, maintaining, or contributing to open-source Android projects.

• Bonus: Familiarity with iOS, Web, or NodeJS.

🏝️ Benefits

• Bonus

• Stock options

• A diverse and inclusive workplace