Tech Lead, Android Core Product

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

📋 Description

• Take ownership of significant features and collaborate closely with the design team, ensuring the delivery of high-quality app functionalities.

• Influence the future direction of the Android team.

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

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

• Review pull requests and provide support to colleagues.

• Address critical issues and navigate unexpected challenges.

• Take charge of feature releases and supply nightly builds for the QA team.

• Participate in multiple technical interviews throughout the hiring process.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 5 years of experience in software engineering.

• Familiarity with Android components.

• Experience in building or contributing to at least one Android application.

• An understanding of product design and empathy for users.

• A desire to innovate within Android UI/UX.

• Knowledge of the significance of testing and strategies for writing tests.

• A proactive approach to enhancing the app and codebase beyond the specifications.

• Robust experience with Kotlin, Kotlin Coroutines, Kotlin Flow, Dagger 2, MVVM, Clean Architecture, Background Services, Music Player Service, Android Animations, Jetpack Navigation, and JUnit tests.

• Excellent communication abilities.

• A problem-solving mindset focused on user needs.

• A commitment to ongoing feedback from leadership.

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

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

• Please include links to your portfolio and LinkedIn when applying.

🏝️ Benefits

• A rapidly growing environment where you can influence the company and product direction.

• A team with an entrepreneurial mindset that embraces risk, intuition, and initiative.

• A hands-off management style that allows you to concentrate and perform at your best.

• An opportunity to make a significant impact in a transformative industry.

• Competitive salaries, a friendly and relaxed atmosphere, and a focus on developing a strong asynchronous culture.

• The chance to work on a life-changing product that millions of users depend on.

• Create products that directly affect and assist individuals with learning differences such as dyslexia, ADD, low vision, concussions, autism, and more.

• Engage in one of the fastest-growing sectors of technology, at the crossroads of artificial intelligence and audio.

• Bonus: Stock options.