Android Team Lead

The opportunity

Join the innovative and quickly growing team at Unity-Aura, where we're building a groundbreaking, large-scale mobile platform. We're searching for an exceptional and passionate Android Team Lead to guide our talented developers in a fast-paced environment.

Our goal is to create a content discovery platform that reaches millions of users daily, offering unique and effortless ways for them to find their favorite content. At Aura, we're constantly using the latest Android technologies to build a scalable product that's growing fast.

This is an exciting chance for someone who wants to make a real impact on a challenging product with a huge audience, all while leading and mentoring a skilled team. We highly value leaders who champion technical excellence, encourage ownership, and know how to pick the right tools for the job.

What you'll be doing

• Lead and grow an Android development team: You'll guide, mentor, and manage one of our Android development teams, building a strong culture of teamwork and constant improvement.
• Drive architectural design: You'll lead the design and development of complex features, making sure the team produces clean, scalable, and high-quality code.
• Oversee the full development cycle: This means you'll be in charge of the team's Android development efforts from start to finish, including design, actual coding, testing, and getting the product out to users.
• Work closely with other teams: You'll team up with product managers, architects, DevOps, BI Engineers, and business teams to plan and carry out our clear product roadmap.
• Ensure code quality: You'll regularly review code, giving helpful feedback to ensure our team sticks to best practices and high standards.
• Keep us at the cutting edge: You'll stay on top of the newest trends in Android development, guiding the team to use innovative solutions and best practices that make our product better and our work more efficient.
• Manage project delivery: You'll handle project schedules, resources, and priorities to make sure we hit our product milestones on time.
• Boost communication: You'll make sure information and knowledge are shared effectively within your team and with other departments.
  
  

What we're looking for

• 4+ years of experience building Android apps with Kotlin.
• Experience leading Android developers, as a manager or a technical lead - a strong advantage.
• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to think analytically.
• A deep understanding of Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) concepts and design principles.
• Familiarity with Google's design principles and interface guidelines.
• Hands-on experience with multithreading, mobile memory management, and working with RESTful APIs.
• A solid grasp of Jetpack components like ViewModel, Room, Coroutines, and WorkManager.
  
  

You might also have

• Experience with system apps
• Working experience with Dependency Injection
• Experience with testing frameworks and best practices
  
  

Additional information

• Relocation support is not available for this position
• Work visa/immigration sponsorship is not available for this position
  
  

Life at Unity

We offer a wide range of benefits designed to support employees' well-being and work-life balance. You can read more about them on our career page.

Unity [NYSE: U] is the leading platform to create and grow games and interactive experiences. Creators, ranging from game developers to artists, architects, automotive designers, infrastructure experts, filmmakers, and more, use Unity to bring their imaginations to life across multiple platforms, from mobile, PC, and console, to spatial computing.

As of the third quarter of 2024, more than 70% of the top 1,000 mobile games were made with Unity, and in 2024, Made with Unity applications had an average of 3.7 billion downloads per month. For more information, please visit Unity.

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