Team Lead, Android Core Product

• Own major Android features end to end, working closely with the design team through release
• Own, maintain, and improve reliability metrics for key features
• Review pull requests and provide developmental feedback
• Unblock engineers by investigating persistent issues
• Identify reusable implementations and drive team-wide adoption
• Maintain tested, clear, and consolidated shared components
• Lead changes to team processes and ways of working
• Reduce manual intervention required for correct releases
• Address recurring problems by changing underlying systems
• Expand automated verification and shift testing earlier in development
• Run planning focused on unresolved decisions
• Define review requirements and approval points
• Participate in Product, Design, and Engineering discussions
• Handle critical issues, own feature releases, and provide nightly builds to QA
• Support early-career engineers with learning-oriented 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 system that remained adopted 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, based on system behavior
• Track record of building things used by the broader team
• Ability to describe how the team works with AI agents
• Product design intuition and user empathy
• 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, not requirements

• Bonus
• Stock depending on experience
• 100% distributed work setting
• Several technical interviews plus an assessment on a real codebase
• Interview process aiming for completion within 1 week