Android Tech Lead: Core Product & Architecture

Lever, Inc.; Portugal; Remote; EUR 70,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

Competitive salary

Autonomy

Distributed team

Impactful product

Job summary

Lever, Inc. is seeking a Tech Lead, Android Core Product based in Portugal. You will own major Android features end-to-end from concept to release, collaborating with Product, Design, QA, and Engineering to build reliable, high-quality experiences for millions of users.

The role emphasizes architectural thinking, user empathy, and strong test coverage within a distributed, autonomous team. A lead who mentors peers and drives critical technical and product challenges will thrive here.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, including hands-on Android development.
• Strong familiarity with Android components and production-quality Android apps.
• Excellent hands-on expertise with Kotlin and modern Android development technologies.
• Strong understanding of MVVM and Clean Architecture, with experience in background services and animations.
• Ability to design effective automated tests for reliability and maintainability.
• Product design empathy and user-centric decision making.
• Proactive mindset to improve the application and codebase beyond minimum requirements.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills with a user-oriented approach.
• Experience contributing to Android open-source projects is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Own major Android features end-to-end, partnering with Product and Design to define, build, test, and deliver high-quality experiences.
• Shape the future direction of the Android engineering team with technical leadership and product-thinking.
• Own, monitor, and improve reliability metrics for key features and address risks.
• Collaborate across Product, Design, Engineering, and QA to align solutions with user needs.
• Review pull requests and mentor teammates to maintain engineering standards.
• Take ownership of incidents and drive issues through to resolution.
• Manage feature releases and provide nightly builds to the QA team.

Skills

Android development

Kotlin

MVVM

Jetpack

Testing

Job description

Lever, Inc. is seeking a Tech Lead, Android Core Product based in Portugal. You will own major Android features end-to-end from concept to release, collaborating with Product, Design, QA, and Engineering to build reliable, high-quality experiences for millions of users.

The role emphasizes architectural thinking, user empathy, and strong test coverage within a distributed, autonomous team. A lead who mentors peers and drives critical technical and product challenges will thrive here.