Team Lead, Android Core Product

• Own major Android core product features end to end, working closely with Design from decision through release
• Own, maintain, and improve reliability metrics for key features
• Write code, review pull requests, and provide actionable feedback
• Unblock engineers by investigating and resolving technical issues
• Consolidate shared implementations and keep shared components tested and maintainable
• Lead changes to team processes and working practices
• Reduce manual intervention required for correct releases
• Address recurring problems by improving the underlying setup
• Shift verification left and expand automated checks
• Run planning and focus team attention on unresolved decisions
• Define review requirements and sign-off processes
• Participate in Product, Design, and Engineering discussions and represent team constraints
• Handle critical issues, own feature releases, and provide nightly builds for QA
• Support early-career engineers with appropriately challenging work and learning time

• 5+ years of software engineering experience, including time leading a team or owning a major surface while staying hands-on
• Rock solid Kotlin, Kotlin Coroutines, Kotlin Flow, Dagger 2, MVVM, Clean Architecture, Background Services, Music Player Service, Android animations, Jetpack Navigation, and JUnit tests
• Experience shipping and maintaining background audio or other long-running background work
• Understanding of the importance of tests and how to approach writing them, including what can't be covered by them
• Something you introduced to a team that stuck after you stopped pushing it, and an honest account of what it cost to get there
• Comfort asking people to change how they work and managing the resulting friction
• Ability to determine which changes need heavy review and which do not
• Track record of building things the rest of the team actually used
• Ability to describe how the team works with AI agents
• Product design intuition, user empathy, and drive to push Android UI/UX further than the spec asks for
• Self-drive to improve the app and codebase beyond the specification
• Excellent communication skills
• Links to portfolio and LinkedIn requested
• Open source Android projects, iOS, Web, or NodeJS experience listed as bonus

• Bonus
• Stock depending on experience
• 100% distributed work setting
• No office
• Several technical interviews plus an assessment on a real codebase
• Interview process aims to be completed within 1 week