Team Lead, Android Core Product

• Own major Android features end to end, from decisions through release, working closely with Design
• Own, maintain, and improve reliability metrics for key features
• Review pull requests and provide developmental feedback
• Unblock engineers and resolve team impediments
• Standardize shared solutions and consolidate duplicate implementations
• Keep shared code tested, clear, and maintainable
• Lead changes to team processes
• 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 and focus team attention on unresolved decisions
• Define review requirements and approval ownership
• 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 opportunities
• Complete technical interviews and a real-codebase assessment as part of 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 a change or practice that was adopted by a team
• Comfort asking people to change how they work and managing the 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
• Self-drive to improve the app and codebase beyond the specification
• Excellent communication skills
• Open source Android project experience (bonus)
• Experience with iOS, Web, or NodeJS (bonus)

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