Team Lead, Android Core Product

• Own major 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 and resolve technical obstacles
• Identify reusable implementations and standardize them across the team
• Maintain shared components so they are tested, clear, and consolidated
• Improve team processes and working methods
• Reduce manual intervention required for correct releases
• Address recurring problems by changing underlying systems
• Shift verification left through increased automated checking
• Run planning focused on unresolved decisions
• Define review requirements and sign-off processes
• Participate in Product, Design, and Engineering discussions
• Handle critical issues, own feature releases, and provide nightly builds for QA
• Support early-career engineers with learning opportunities
• Write, review, and own code hands-on 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
• Something you introduced to a team that stuck after you stopped pushing it, and an honest account of what it cost to get there
• Some comfort with asking people to change how they work and managing resulting friction
• A view on which changes need heavy review and which don't, argued from what the system does
• Track record of building things the rest of your team actually used
• Ability to describe how your 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
• Several technical interviews plus an assessment on a real codebase
• Portfolio and LinkedIn links included with application

• Bonus
• Stock depending on experience
• 100% distributed work setting
• No office
• Diverse and inclusive workplace