Team Lead, Android Core Product

• Own major features end to end, from decision through release, working closely with Design
• Own, maintain, and improve reliability metrics for key features
• Review pull requests and provide constructive feedback
• Unblock engineers and resolve technical obstacles
• Standardize successful implementations for team-wide use
• Maintain tested, clear, consolidated shared components
• Drive improvements to team processes
• 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 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 early-career engineers with learning opportunities
• Participate in technical interviews and real-codebase assessment

• 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 improvements that persist 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
• Track record of building things used by the wider team
• Ability to describe how the team works with AI agents
• Product design intuition and user empathy
• Excellent communication skills
• Building, maintaining, or contributing to open source Android projects (bonus)
• Experience with iOS, Web, or NodeJS (bonus)
• Must provide portfolio and LinkedIn links when applying

• Bonus
• Stock
• Diverse and inclusive workplace