Lead, Android Core Product

• Own major Android features end to end, working closely with the design team from decision through release
• Own, maintain, and improve reliability metrics for key features
• Review pull requests and provide actionable feedback
• Unblock engineers by investigating technical issues
• Consolidate reusable implementations into team-standard solutions
• Maintain shared code that is tested, clear, and reusable
• Lead changes to team processes
• Reduce manual intervention required for correct releases
• Address recurring problems by changing underlying systems
• Shift verification left and expand automated checks
• Run planning focused on work requiring decisions
• Define review requirements and sign-off practices
• Participate in Product, Design, and Engineering discussions
• Handle critical issues, own feature releases, and provide nightly builds for QA
• Support early-career engineers with appropriately challenging 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 team practices 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 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 push Android UI/UX further than the specification
• Self-drive to improve the app and codebase beyond the specification
• Excellent communication skills
• Several technical interviews plus an assessment on a real codebase
• Portfolio and LinkedIn links included with application

• Bonus
• Stock
• Diverse and inclusive workplace