Team Lead, Android Core Product

• Own major features end to end, working closely with the design team from decision through release
• Own, maintain, and improve reliability metrics for key features
• Review pull requests and provide constructive feedback
• Unblock engineers and investigate stalled work
• Identify reusable team solutions and drive their adoption
• Maintain tested, clear, and consolidated shared components
• Improve team processes and determine when workflow changes are needed
• Reduce manual intervention required for correct releases
• Address recurring problems by changing the underlying setup
• Increase automated verification so nightly builds sent to QA are reliable
• Run planning and prioritize work requiring decisions
• Define appropriate review levels and sign-off requirements
• Participate in Product, Design, and Engineering discussions
• Handle critical issues, own feature releases, and provide nightly builds for QA
• Support the development and learning of early-career engineers

• 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 you introduced to a team that stuck after you stopped pushing it, and an honest account of what it cost to get there
• Some comfort with the unpopular half of the job: asking people to change how they work, and living with the friction that follows
• A view on which changes need heavy review and which don't, argued from what the system does
• A track record of building things the rest of your team actually used, not only things that made you faster
• The ability to describe how your team works with AI agents, not only how you do personally
• Product design intuition, user empathy, and the drive to push Android UI/UX further than the spec asks for
• Self-drive to improve the app and codebase beyond what's outlined in the spec
• Excellent communication skills
• Several technical interviews plus an assessment on a real codebase
• Portfolio and LinkedIn links when applying

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