Team Lead, Android Core Product

• Own major 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 and resolve team impediments
• Identify reusable implementations and establish team-standard versions
• Maintain tested, clear, and consolidated shared components
• Drive changes to team processes
• Reduce manual intervention required for correct releases
• Address recurring problems by changing the underlying setup
• Expand automated verification and shift verification left
• Run planning focused on work requiring decisions
• Define review requirements and mandatory sign-offs
• 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 code, review code, and own features hands-on

• 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
• Experience introducing a team practice that continued after the candidate stopped pushing it
• Comfort asking people to change how they work and handling resulting friction
• Ability to determine which changes need heavy review and which do not
• 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
• 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
• Interview process targeted for completion within 1 week