Team Lead, Android Core Product

• Own major features end to end, working closely with the design team from decision through release
• Own, maintain, and improve reliability metrics for key features
• Review pull requests and provide developmental feedback
• Unblock engineers and investigate technical impediments
• Identify and standardize solutions for team-wide use
• Maintain shared code components, including testing, clarity, and consolidation
• Drive changes to team processes
• Reduce manual intervention required for correct releases
• Address recurring problems by changing underlying systems
• Shift verification left and expand automated checks
• Run planning focused on unresolved decisions
• Define review requirements and approval ownership
• Participate in Product, Design, and Engineering discussions and surface team constraints early
• Handle critical issues, own feature releases, and provide nightly builds for QA
• Support early-career engineers with meaningful work and learning time
• Write code, review code, and own features hands-on

• 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 processes or practices that remained adopted after implementation
• Comfort asking people to change how they work and handling resulting friction
• Ability to determine which changes need heavy review and which do not, based on system behavior
• Track record of building things used by the wider team
• Ability to describe how the team works with AI agents
• Product design intuition and user empathy
• Self-drive to improve the app and codebase beyond the specification
• Excellent communication skills
• Portfolio and LinkedIn links requested when applying

• Bonus
• Stock depending on experience
• 100% distributed work setting
• Several technical interviews plus an assessment on a real codebase
• Interview process targeted for completion within 1 week