Team Lead, Android Core Product

• Own major Android features end to end, from decisions through release, working closely with Design
• Own, maintain, and improve reliability metrics for key features
• Review pull requests and provide developmental feedback
• Unblock engineers and resolve technical obstacles
• Identify reusable implementations and standardize them across the team
• Maintain tested, clear, and consolidated shared components
• Lead changes to team processes and ways of working
• Reduce manual intervention required for correct releases
• Address recurring problems by changing the underlying setup
• Shift verification left by expanding automated checks
• Run planning and focus team attention on undecided work
• Define review requirements and sign-off practices
• Participate in Product, Design, and Engineering discussions and surface team constraints early
• Handle critical issues, own feature releases, and provide nightly builds to QA
• Support early-career engineers with learning-focused work and development 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
• Some comfort with asking people to change how they work and living with the resulting friction
• A view on which changes need heavy review and which don't, argued from what the system does
• Track record of building things the rest of your team actually used
• Ability to describe how your team works with AI agents
• Product design intuition, user empathy, and drive to push Android UI/UX beyond the specification
• Self-drive to improve the app and codebase beyond the specification
• Excellent communication skills
• Open source Android projects, iOS, Web, or NodeJS experience are bonuses

• Bonus
• Stock depending on experience
• 100% distributed work setting
• No office
• Technical interview process completed within 1 week