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 by investigating difficult problems
• Standardize successful implementations for team use
• Maintain tested, clear, consolidated shared components
• Lead changes to team processes
• Reduce manual intervention required for correct releases
• Address recurring problems by changing underlying systems
• Shift verification left through automated checks
• Run planning focused on unresolved decisions
• Define review requirements and approval ownership
• Participate in Product, Design, and Engineering discussions and raise team constraints early
• Handle critical issues, own feature releases, and provide nightly builds for QA
• Support early-career engineers with meaningful work and learning time
• Complete several 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
• Experience introducing lasting team practices and explaining the tradeoffs involved
• Comfort asking people to change how they work and managing 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 specifications
• Self-drive to improve the app and codebase
• Excellent communication skills
• Links to a portfolio and LinkedIn when applying
• Bonus: Building, maintaining, or contributing to open source Android projects
• Bonus: Experience with iOS, Web, or NodeJS

• 100% distributed setting
• No office
• Diverse and inclusive workplace