YOUR NEXT CHAPTER
Team Lead, Android Core Product
About the role
• 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 developmental feedback
• Unblock engineers and resolve team impediments
• Standardize solutions and maintain shared components
• Ensure shared code is tested, clear, and consolidated
• Drive changes to team processes
• Reduce manual intervention required for correct releases
• Address recurring problems by improving underlying systems
• Expand automated verification and shift testing left
• Run planning and focus team attention on decisions requiring action
• Define review requirements and sign-off responsibilities
• Participate in Product, Design, and Engineering discussions
• Handle critical issues, own feature releases, and provide nightly builds for QA
• Support early-career engineers with appropriate learning opportunities
• Write code, review code, and own features hands-on
• Complete 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
• 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