Tech Lead, Android Core Product

Lever, Inc.; France; À distance; EUR 90 000 - 130 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Competitive salary

Stock options

Autonomous work environment

Distributed team collaboration

Résumé du poste

Lever, Inc. is seeking a Tech Lead, Android Core Product in France. You will own major features end-to-end, shaping the Android architecture while collaborating with Product, Design, QA, and Engineering to deliver high-quality experiences at scale.

The role blends hands-on leadership with product thinking and a focus on reliability, UI/UX quality, and accessibility across a globally used mobile product.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience with Android applications.
• Strong familiarity with Android components and production-quality apps.
• Expertise in Kotlin and modern Android development (Kotlin Coroutines, Jetpack).
• Solid understanding of MVVM and Clean Architecture, plus testing.
• Product design empathy and user-focused decision making.
• Collaborative mindset and drive for quality in a distributed team.

Responsabilités

• Own major Android features end-to-end from concept to release.
• Shape Android engineering direction with architectural thinking.
• Monitor reliability metrics and address technical risks.
• Collaborate with Product, Design, QA and Engineering teams.
• Review PRs and mentor peers to maintain engineering standards.
• Lead incidents and ensure timely, high-quality releases.

Connaissances

Android development

Kotlin

MVVM

Clean Architecture

Unit testing

UI/UX empathy

Communication

Outils

Dagger 2

Jetpack Compose

Room

Jetpack Navigation

JUnit

Canvas & Paint

Description du poste

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 France.

This is a strategic Android engineering role focused on shaping the future of a fast-growing mobile product used by millions worldwide.
You will own major features from concept through release while partnering closely with Product, Design, QA, and Engineering teams.
The role combines hands-on technical leadership with product thinking, user empathy, and a strong focus on quality.
You will help evolve the Android architecture, improve reliability, and push the boundaries of mobile UI and UX.
The environment is highly distributed, autonomous, fast-paced, and designed for engineers who take ownership and deliver results.
You will also contribute to team direction, mentor peers, and help solve critical technical and product challenges.
This is an opportunity to have a direct impact on an accessible technology product serving users with diverse learning needs.

Accountabilities

• Own major Android features end-to-end, partnering closely with Product and Design to define, build, test, and deliver high-quality experiences that delight users.
• Help shape the future direction of the Android engineering team by contributing strong technical leadership, architectural thinking, and product-focused decision-making.
• Own, monitor, maintain, and continuously improve reliability metrics for key product features, proactively identifying and addressing technical risks.
• Collaborate across Product, Design, Engineering, and QA to align technical solutions with user needs and broader product objectives.
• Review pull requests, provide constructive technical feedback, and support teammates in maintaining high engineering standards.
• Take ownership of critical incidents and unexpected technical challenges, responding quickly and driving issues through to resolution.
• Manage feature releases and provide nightly builds to the QA team, ensuring new functionality is thoroughly tested and delivered with a high level of quality.

Requirements

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, including hands-on experience developing or contributing significantly to Android applications.
• Strong familiarity with Android components and proven experience building production-quality Android applications.
• Excellent hands-on 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, as well as experience with background services, music player services, Android animations, and JUnit testing.
• A strong understanding of testing principles and the ability to design and implement effective automated tests that support application reliability and maintainability.
• Product design intuition and genuine empathy for users, with the ability to make thoughtful technical and UX decisions that improve the overall product experience.
• A proactive mindset and willingness to improve the application and codebase beyond the minimum requirements defined in a specification.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, combined with a user-oriented approach to problem solving and a strong drive for continuous improvement through feedback.
• Experience contributing to Android open-source projects is a plus, as is familiarity with iOS, Web, or Node.js development.

Benefits

• 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.
• An opportunity to join a fast-growing environment where you can directly influence product and technical direction.
• A highly entrepreneurial culture that values initiative, intuition, calculated risk-taking, and strong execution.
• A hands-off management approach that provides significant autonomy and allows you to focus on delivering your best work.
• The opportunity to work on a transformative product used by millions of people around the world.
• The chance to build technology that supports people with learning differences and accessibility needs, including dyslexia, ADD, low vision, concussions, and autism.
• A friendly, laid-back working environment with a strong commitment to asynchronous collaboration across a fully distributed team.
• The opportunity to work at the intersection of artificial intelligence and audio, one of the fastest-growing areas of technology.