Lead Android Software Engineer, Philo

• 8+ years of software development experience
• Experience with Kotlin, Coroutines, and their surrounding ecosystem
• Experience developing an Android app for TV platforms
• Experience with Jetpack Compose
• Experience with MVVM, MVI, and/or Clean Architecture
• Experience using SQL-based tools for application monitoring and alerting

Desirable

• The Android team at Philo is responsible for building our product experience on four different platforms from one codebase — Android Mobile, Android TV, Amazon Fire Tablets, and Amazon FireTV
• We’re a small collaborative team building apps with high engagement and millions of installs, which collectively are responsible for a huge fraction of the billions of minutes watched on Philo each year
• We are passionate about crafting the best possible UX to connect our users with the content they love, providing a seamless viewing experience while surprising them with new features and capabilities
• Engineering Managers at Philo lead by example, and are expected to write code and demonstrate best practices while also providing coaching, technical leadership, and insights within and across teams
• We expect managers to split their time between hands-on technical project tasks (coding, designing, scoping, researching, etc.), and on team management and coaching, adjusting the ratio as needed depending on the team's needs at any given time
• We are seeking an enthusiastic Software Engineering Manager with a deep technical background building high-quality, high-engagement Android applications for TV and mobile
• As a member of a growing team, you will serve as both a technical leader to help us build new features and as an internal subject matter expert on the Android platform
• Provide technical leadership to members of the Android team, including input on system architecture and design tradeoffs
• Provide strong people management for the members of your team, including technical coaching, high quality feedback on performance, and career development
• Drive continuous improvements to the reliability, performance, and UI of the Android applications. In practice this means managing our tech debt backlog, and advocating for improvements as needed
• Manage day-to-day partnership operations with Google and Amazon. This includes working through technical integrations and ensuring that the app release process goes smoothly
• Help the team manage and plan for the application releases. We have a rotating release shepherd, who is a member of the Android team and is responsible for the nuts and bolts coordination of each release (every 2 weeks)
• In this role you would help guide the shepherd and make hard decisions about feature inclusion
• Monitor app performance and triage crashes, bugs and performance regressions as they arise
• Collaborate with internal stakeholders across marketing, support, design, product, and data science teams to ensure smooth feature delivery
• Own the best practices within the codebase; lead by example by improving the codebase and its supporting documentation as you go
• Own and drive any hiring/recruiting needed for the growth of the team over time