Team Lead, Android Core Product

• Own major features end to end 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 team members by investigating technical issues
• Promote successful individual solutions into team-wide implementations
• Maintain shared components so they are tested, clear, and consolidated
• Identify when the team should change how it works
• Reduce manual intervention required for correct releases
• Address recurring problems by changing the underlying setup
• Expand automated verification so nightly QA builds provide confirmation
• Run planning focused on work requiring decisions
• Define appropriate review levels and sign-off requirements
• Participate in Product, Design, and Engineering discussions and communicate team constraints early
• Handle critical issues, own feature releases, and provide nightly builds to QA
• Support early-career engineers with meaningful work and learning 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
• Something you introduced to a team that stuck after you stopped pushing it, and an honest account of what it cost to get there
• Comfort asking people to change how they work and living with the resulting friction
• Ability to determine which changes need heavy review and which do not, based on system behavior
• 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 beyond the specification
• Self-drive to improve the app and codebase beyond the specification
• Excellent communication skills
• Open source Android project experience, iOS, Web, or NodeJS experience are bonuses

• Bonus
• Stock
• Diverse and inclusive workplace
• Several technical interviews plus an assessment on a real codebase
• Interview process aimed to be completed within 1 week