Team Lead, Android Core Product

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

📋 Description

• Take full ownership of major features from concept to launch, collaborating closely with the design team throughout the process.

• Manage, maintain, and enhance reliability metrics for key functionalities.

• Evaluate pull requests and offer constructive feedback.

• Assist team members by investigating and resolving technical obstacles.

• Identify and promote reusable solutions across the team.

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

• Lead enhancements to team processes.

• Minimize manual efforts required for successful releases.

• Tackle recurring issues by refining underlying systems.

• Enhance automated checks to shift verification to earlier stages.

• Facilitate planning sessions focused on decision-making tasks.

• Establish review criteria and sign-off duties.

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

• Address critical problems, manage feature releases, and provide nightly builds for QA.

• Mentor early-career engineers through learning-oriented tasks and development opportunities.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 5 years of experience in software engineering, including leading a team or owning a significant feature while remaining hands-on.

• Strong expertise in Kotlin, Kotlin Coroutines, Kotlin Flow, Dagger 2, MVVM, Clean Architecture, Background Services, Music Player Service, Android animations, Jetpack Navigation, and JUnit testing.

• Proven experience in deploying and maintaining background audio or other long-running background processes.

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

• An example of a practice you implemented in a team that persisted after your involvement, along with an honest assessment of the effort it took to achieve this.

• Comfort with the less popular aspects of the role, such as encouraging colleagues to alter their workflows and managing the resulting challenges.

• Insight into which changes necessitate extensive review and which do not, based on system functionality.

• A history of developing tools utilized by the team, rather than solely those that improved your own efficiency.

• Capability to articulate how your team collaborates with AI agents, not just how you personally engage with them.

• Strong product design intuition, user empathy, and a passion for elevating Android UI/UX beyond basic specifications.

• Self-motivation to enhance the application and codebase beyond what is defined in the specifications.

• Exceptional communication abilities.

• Completion of several technical interviews and an assessment involving a real codebase.

• Submission of portfolio and LinkedIn links with your application.

🏝️ Benefits

• Bonus opportunities.

• Stock options.

• A diverse and inclusive work environment.