Team Lead, Android Core Product

• Own major Android product features end to end from decision through release, working closely with Design
• Own, maintain, and improve reliability metrics for key features
• Write code, review pull requests, and provide developmental feedback
• Unblock engineers and resolve team impediments hands-on
• Standardize successful implementations for team-wide use
• Maintain tested, clear, and consolidated shared components
• Drive changes to team processes and working methods
• Reduce manual intervention required for correct releases
• Address recurring problems by improving underlying systems
• Expand automated verification and shift testing earlier in development
• Run planning focused on unresolved decisions
• Define review requirements and sign-off responsibilities
• Participate in Product, Design, and Engineering discussions and raise team constraints early
• Handle critical issues, own feature releases, and provide nightly builds to QA
• Support early-career engineers with learning-focused work and development 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
• Experience introducing a practice or change that remained after implementation
• Comfort asking people to change how they work and managing resulting friction
• Ability to determine which changes need heavy review and which do not
• Track record of building things the rest of 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
• Self-drive to improve the app and codebase beyond the specification
• Excellent communication skills
• Open source Android experience is a bonus
• Experience with iOS, Web, or NodeJS is a bonus
• Several technical interviews plus an assessment on a real codebase
• Portfolio and LinkedIn links requested with application

• Bonus
• Stock depending on experience
• Diverse and inclusive workplace