Team Lead, Android Core Product

• Own major features end to end with the design team, from decisions through release
• Own, maintain, and improve reliability metrics for key features
• Write code, review code, and own features hands-on
• Review pull requests and provide developmental feedback
• Unblock engineers and investigate stalled work
• Identify reusable team solutions and consolidate duplicated implementations
• Maintain shared components so they are tested, clear, and reusable
• Improve team processes and reduce manual intervention in releases
• Change underlying systems to prevent recurring problems
• Shift verification left through automated checks
• Run planning focused on unresolved decisions
• Define review requirements and sign-off responsibilities
• Participate in Product, Design, and Engineering discussions and bring team constraints early
• Handle critical issues, own feature releases, and provide nightly builds to QA
• Support early-career engineers with meaningful work and learning time

• 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 cost
• 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 the team actually used
• Ability to describe how the team works with AI agents
• Product design intuition, user empathy, and drive to improve Android UI/UX beyond the specification
• 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

• Bonus
• Stock
• Diverse and inclusive workplace
• Several technical interviews plus an assessment on a real codebase
• Interview process aimed to be completed within 1 week