Tech Lead, Android Core Product

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

📋 Description

• Take ownership of key 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, uphold, and enhance reliability metrics for essential features.

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

• Review pull requests and provide support to colleagues.

• Address critical issues and navigate unexpected challenges.

• Assume responsibility for feature releases and deliver nightly builds for the QA team.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 5 years of experience in software engineering.

• Knowledge of Android components.

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

• A strong intuition for product design and user empathy.

• A passion for pushing the frontiers of Android UI/UX.

• A clear understanding of the significance of tests and approaches to writing them.

• A proactive attitude towards enhancing the app and codebase beyond the specifications.

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

• Strong communication abilities.

• A user-centered problem-solving mindset.

• A commitment to continuous feedback from leadership.

• Experience in building, maintaining, or contributing to open-source projects in Android is advantageous.

• Familiarity with iOS, Web, or NodeJS is a plus.

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

🏝️ Benefits

• A dynamic environment where you can influence the company's direction and product development.

• An entrepreneurial team that encourages risk-taking, intuition, and determination.

• A management style that allows you to concentrate on your best work.

• The chance to make a significant impact in a transformative industry.

• Competitive salaries, a friendly and relaxed atmosphere, and a dedication to fostering a great asynchronous culture.

• An opportunity to work on a life-changing product used by millions.

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

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

• Bonus and stock options based on experience.

• Fully remote work environment with no office requirements.

• Emphasis on an asynchronous work culture.