About the company
This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Tech Lead, Android Core Product based in United States.
Responsibilities
- Own major Android features end-to-end, partnering closely with Product and Design to define, build, test, and deliver high-quality experiences.
- Help shape the future direction of the Android engineering team through technical leadership, architectural thinking, and product-focused decision-making.
- Own, monitor, maintain, and continuously improve reliability metrics for key product features.
- Collaborate across Product, Design, Engineering, and QA to align technical solutions with user needs.
- Review pull requests, provide constructive technical feedback, and support teammates in maintaining high engineering standards.
- Take ownership of critical incidents and unexpected technical challenges.
- Manage feature releases and provide nightly builds to the QA team.
Requirements
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, including hands-on Android application development.
- Strong familiarity with Android components and experience building production-quality Android applications.
- Expertise with Kotlin and modern Android development technologies, including Kotlin Coroutines, Kotlin Flow, Jetpack Navigation, Dagger 2, Room, Jetpack Compose, custom views, Canvas and Paint.
- Strong understanding of software architecture and development patterns, particularly MVVM and Clean Architecture, background services, music player services, Android animations, and JUnit testing.
- Strong understanding of testing principles and ability to design and implement effective automated tests.
- Product design intuition and empathy for users.
- Proactive mindset and willingness to improve the application and codebase.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
- Experience contributing to Android open-source projects is a plus, as is familiarity with iOS, Web, or Node.js development.
Conditions
- Competitive salary, with the U.S.-based equivalent range listed at $140,000–$200,000 USD per year, plus bonus and stock depending on experience.
- Opportunity to join a fast-growing environment with direct influence on product and technical direction.
- Highly entrepreneurial culture.
- Hands-off management approach with significant autonomy.
- Opportunity to work on a transformative product used by millions worldwide.
- Chance to build technology supporting people with learning differences and accessibility needs.
- Friendly, laid-back working environment with asynchronous collaboration across a fully distributed team.
- Work at the intersection of artificial intelligence and audio.