Android Tech Lead (Delivery Quality Team)

Android Tech Lead (Delivery Quality Team)

Department: Technology Delivery Hub

Employment Type: Full Time

Location: Kazakhstan

Description

Delivery Hub is one of inDrive’s business units responsible for building and scaling the delivery product, which is rapidly expanding into new markets and adopting an AI-first approach to engineering processes. We are looking for a Tech Lead who will combine hands-on engineering with leadership responsibilities: owning team delivery and execution, defining technical direction and ensuring solution quality, as well as supporting engineers’ growth through feedback, mentoring, and regular 1:1s under the guidance of an Engineering Manager.

Key Responsibilities

• Translate business needs into a technical strategy with measurable outcomes. Ensure alignment with the global company strategy.

• Identify and propose architectural and technical improvements across the product and platform, using data and trade-off analysis.

• Advocate, present, and defend technical solutions at the organizational level in collaboration with various stakeholders (Product, Data, Security, SRE, etc.).

• Participate in reviewing product & technical strategies as a subject-matter expert.

• Lead the process of technical research and implementation to create or improve services and systems.

• Write clean, effective, and maintainable code based on company standards. Participate in improving company-wide code and review standards.

• Take ownership of and improve the Android development lifecycle.

• Help engineers grow and increase their productivity.

• Create effective processes for knowledge sharing and collaborative work. Increase the re-use of best practices across teams.

• Lead task decomposition; mentor engineers and contribute to engineering guidelines.

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

• 6+ years of commercial Android development; expert in Kotlin and modern Android APIs.

• Hands-on experience with Retrofit/OkHttp, Coroutines/Flow (plus RxJava for legacy), Jetpack (Compose, WorkManager), Google Maps, FCM, and Gradle.

• Proven experience with CI/CD (GitHub Actions/GitLab CI), feature flags, and large-scale A/B experimentation.

• Strong grasp of offline storage, concurrency, performance tuning, and network debugging.

• Practical expertise in Clean Architecture and mainstream patterns (MVI/MVVM/MVP) applied in production.

• Deep understanding of client-server interaction and how to make it efficient. Knowledge of specific features and limitations for various use cases.

• Proven record of mentoring and technical leadership, shaping processes, and raising engineering quality across teams.

• Strong grasp of backend-service principles, API design, networking, concurrency, and performance optimization.

• Experience setting up telemetry, dashboards, and automated alerts for production systems; risk assessment and mitigation.

• Exceptional communication, strategic thinking, and influence; able to drive alignment across multiple teams.

• AI-first mindset and readiness to adopt AI tools in engineering processes.

• Real backend development experience is a strong plus.

Why join us

• Help us challenge injustice by creating fair choices for millions of people across 47 countries.

• Develop your professional skills with access to mentoring, career consulting, and learning programs.

• Collaborate with teams around the world and gain international experience through our Global Talent Exchange Program.

• Engage in company-wide challenges, awards, sports activities, employee-led social impact and volunteering projects.

• Work alongside people who take initiative, speak openly, and challenge themselves to grow.

• Improve your language skills through co-financed courses and internal speaking clubs.

Final benefits may vary depending on the location.