Team Lead, Android Core Product

• Own major Android features end to end from decision through release, working closely with Design
• Own, maintain, and improve reliability metrics for key features
• Review pull requests and provide developmental feedback
• Unblock engineers by investigating technical issues
• Standardize successful implementations for team-wide use
• Maintain tested, clear, and consolidated shared components
• Improve team processes and reduce manual intervention in releases
• Address recurring problems by changing underlying systems
• Expand automated verification and shift testing earlier in development
• Run planning and prioritize work requiring decisions
• Define review requirements and approval responsibilities
• Participate in Product, Design, and Engineering discussions
• Handle critical issues, own feature releases, and provide nightly builds for QA
• Mentor early-career engineers
• Work hands-on by writing and reviewing code while leading the team

• 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
• Experience introducing practices or systems that remain adopted by a team
• Comfort asking people to change how they work and handling resulting friction
• Ability to determine which changes need heavy review and which do not
• Track record of building things the rest of the team uses
• Ability to describe how the team works with AI agents
• Product design intuition, user empathy, and drive to improve Android UI/UX
• Self-drive to improve the app and codebase beyond the specification
• Excellent communication skills
• Several technical interviews plus an assessment on a real codebase
• Portfolio and LinkedIn links included with application

• Bonus
• Stock
• Diverse and inclusive workplace