Team Lead, Android Core Product

• Own major Android core product features end to end, from decision through release, collaborating closely with Design
• Own, maintain, and improve reliability metrics for key features
• Write code, review pull requests, and provide substantive feedback
• Unblock engineers by investigating and resolving impediments
• Identify reusable team solutions and consolidate duplicate implementations
• Maintain shared components so they are tested, clear, and reusable
• Drive changes to team processes when needed
• Reduce manual intervention required for correct releases
• Address recurring problems by changing the underlying setup
• Shift verification left by expanding automated checks before QA
• Run planning focused on work requiring decisions
• Determine appropriate review levels and required sign-offs
• 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
• Experience introducing a change that remained adopted by a team
• Comfort asking people to change how they work and handling 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 used
• Ability to describe how the team works with AI agents
• Product design intuition, user empathy, and drive to push Android UI/UX beyond specifications
• Self-drive to improve the app and codebase beyond the specification
• Excellent communication skills
• Portfolio and LinkedIn links included with application
• Bonus: Building, maintaining, or contributing to open source Android projects
• Bonus: Experience with iOS, Web, or NodeJS

• 100% distributed setting
• No office
• Diverse and inclusive workplace
• Several technical interviews plus an assessment on a real codebase, with the process targeted for completion within 1 week