Team Lead, Android Core Product

• Own major Android core-product features end to end, from decisions through release, collaborating with Design
• Own, maintain, and improve reliability metrics for key features
• Write code, review pull requests, and provide developmental feedback
• Unblock engineers by investigating and resolving technical issues
• Standardize reusable solutions and consolidate duplicated implementations
• Maintain shared components so they are tested, clear, and reusable
• Lead improvements to team processes and working practices
• Reduce manual intervention required for correct releases
• Address recurring problems by improving underlying systems
• Shift verification left and expand automated checks before QA
• Run planning focused on work requiring decisions
• Define review requirements and sign-off processes
• Participate in Product, Design, and Engineering discussions and communicate team constraints
• Handle critical issues, own feature releases, and provide nightly builds to QA
• Support early-career engineers with meaningful work and learning time
• Write and maintain hands-on Android code

• 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 introduced to a team that continued after the candidate stopped pushing it, with an honest account of its cost
• Comfort asking people to change how they work and handling 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 and user empathy
• Excellent communication skills
• Self-drive to improve the app and codebase beyond the specification
• Portfolio and LinkedIn links included with application
• Several technical interviews and a real-codebase assessment
• Bonus: open source Android project experience
• Bonus: experience with iOS, Web, or NodeJS

• 100% distributed work setting
• No office
• Diverse and inclusive workplace
• Technical interview process using tools used every day
• Interview process aimed to complete within 1 week