Lead Android Engineer @ Bridge International

Tech at Bridge is a highly complex, vertically-integrated affair, with systems supporting an ever expanding range of functions and countries, and crossing between software development, IT operations, academy operations, and logistics/supply chain. At the same time, our teams run lean and things change fast governments make policy decisions that affect us, launching new countries is a frenetic affair, and we still need to evolve our core technology offering.

We are looking for team leads to spearhead our new Hyderabad-based, cross-functional software delivery teams. In addition to being technically excellent and an individual contributor, a team lead is responsible for the end-to-end progress and quality of her project (looking across all disciplines and technology stacks) and for ensuring that her team is following their agreed norms and processes.


What You Will Do

In addition to the responsibilities of a senior member of the delivery team, including being an individual contributor, the key additional responsibilities of a team lead include:

• Gather requirements, build, test, and ship new Android functionality for our academy tech platform.
• Collaborate with the server-side developers to design the APIs for specifically for the Android application (not just consuming APIs that were already developed for a web app)
• Engage on all dimensions of the app, from UI and UX, to business logic, to storage and networking.
• Introduce architectural patterns to improve scalability, stability, and maintainability.
• Ensure the overall quality of the product being delivered meets our standards for scalability and maintainability. You will be comfortable not only in your primary functional area, but also able to oversee excellence across all aspects of delivery and are accountable for keeping the project and team on track.
• Focus on continuous improvement, pushing the team to adopt new approaches and technologies, ensuring that we stay on top of emerging standards.
• Work with the software software engineering manager to ensure that the team is following well-defined processes. And where the processes need refining, to push for those changes.
• Set the culture and tone of the team - to push for business relevance, delivery excellence, and innovation.
• Find opportunities for team members to develop professionally and personally. Ensure that informal feedback mechanisms and retrospectives are happening.
• Communicate project status to key stakeholders. The focus should be on low-touch information radiators - but ultimately, the lead needs to