Team Lead, Android Core Product

• Own major Android core product 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 developmental feedback
• Unblock engineers by investigating difficult issues
• Identify reusable team solutions and consolidate duplicate implementations
• Maintain shared components so they are tested, clear, and reusable
• Drive improvements to team processes
• Reduce manual intervention required for correct releases
• Address recurring problems by changing underlying systems
• Shift verification left and expand automated checks before nightly QA builds
• Run planning so the team focuses on work requiring decisions
• Define review requirements and sign-off processes
• Participate in Product, Design, and Engineering discussions and communicate team constraints
• Handle critical issues, own feature releases, and provide nightly builds for QA
• Support early-career team members 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 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
• Links to a portfolio and LinkedIn included with application
• Open source Android projects, or experience with iOS, Web, or NodeJS, are bonuses

• 100% distributed setting
• No office
• Diverse and inclusive workplace
• Several technical interviews plus an assessment on a real codebase, with a process target of 1 week