Team Lead, Android Core Product

• Own major Android features end to end with the design team, from decision through release
• Own, maintain, and improve reliability metrics for key features
• Review pull requests and provide substantive feedback
• Unblock engineers by investigating technical issues
• Standardize reusable team solutions and consolidate duplicate implementations
• Maintain shared code that is tested, clear, and reusable
• Improve team processes and working practices
• Reduce manual intervention required for correct releases
• Address recurring problems by changing the underlying setup
• Expand automated verification and shift testing earlier in the development process
• 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 to QA
• Support early-career engineers with learning opportunities
• Complete technical interviews and a real-codebase assessment during the hiring process

• 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 living with the friction that follows
• 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 the team 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 specification
• Self-drive to improve the app and codebase beyond the specification
• Excellent communication skills
• Portfolio and LinkedIn links included with application

• 100% distributed setting
• No office
• Inclusive workplace