Team Lead, Android Core Product

• Own major Android core product features end to end, from decisions through release, collaborating closely with Design
• Write and review code while owning features hands-on
• Own, maintain, and improve reliability metrics for key features
• Review pull requests and provide constructive technical feedback
• Unblock engineers by investigating and resolving technical impediments
• Identify reusable team solutions and consolidate duplicate implementations
• Maintain shared components so they are tested, clear, and reusable
• Drive improvements to team processes and ways of working
• Reduce manual intervention required for correct releases
• Address recurring problems by changing underlying systems
• Shift verification left by expanding automated checks
• Run planning focused on work requiring decisions
• Define appropriate review levels and sign-off requirements
• Participate in Product, Design, and Engineering discussions, bringing team constraints early
• Handle critical issues and own feature releases
• Provide nightly builds to the QA team
• Support early-career engineers with meaningful work and learning time
• Work with a flat, distributed organization building text-to-speech products used by over 50 million people

• 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 introduced to a team that remained after the candidate stopped pushing it, with an honest account of its implementation cost
• Comfort asking people to change how they work and managing resulting friction
• Ability to determine which changes need heavy review based on system behavior
• Track record of building things the rest of the team used
• Ability to describe how the team works with AI agents
• Product design intuition, user empathy, and drive to improve Android UI/UX beyond specifications
• Self-drive to improve the app and codebase beyond the specification
• Excellent communication skills
• Bonus: Building, maintaining, or contributing to open source Android projects
• Bonus: Experience with iOS, Web, or NodeJS
• Portfolio and LinkedIn links requested with application

• Bonus
• Stock depending on experience
• 100% distributed/remote work setting
• Several technical interviews plus an assessment on a real codebase
• Interview process aimed to be completed within 1 week