Team Lead Apps
Description
Pin-Up Global is looking for a Team Lead Apps to oversee technical execution and lead an Android development team. The role involves managing a high volume of applications, ensuring pragmatic engineering solutions, and coordinating development workflows to maintain efficiency and quality.
The successful candidate will act as a bridge between the development team and other stakeholders, ensuring clear communication regarding project progress, risks, and technical requirements. This position requires a hands-on approach to complex technical challenges, mentoring team members, and integrating modern tools like AI agents into the development lifecycle.
Responsibilities
- Own the team’s technical execution across a high volume of Android apps.
- Stay hands-on for complex, unfamiliar, or non-standard tasks and help developers unblock on hard technical questions.
- Keep engineering pragmatic by ensuring simple, working solutions that are fast to ship and easy to support.
- Bring AI into development and review workflows to speed up delivery.
- Partner with the Tech Lead on technical decisions and project development, and bring in new approaches and technologies that help the team deliver more with less effort.
- Organise daily work, including breaking down tasks, assigning ownership, balancing workload, tracking deadlines, removing blockers, and moving apps through development, testing, and release.
- Streamline development and code review, including AI workflows, to keep cycle times short.
- Align with Product, QA, and other stakeholders on scope, priorities, and timelines.
- Lead the existing Android team through 1:1s, mentoring, and day-to-day guidance.
- Understand each engineer’s strengths and growth areas, and help them become more independent and effective.
- Act as the coordination point between Android developers and the rest of the team, keeping stakeholders informed on progress, risks, and delivery status.
- Stay aligned with the Tech Lead and the team on the same technical language, and evaluate developers’ solutions on technical grounds.
Requirements
- 5+ years of commercial Android development experience (required)
- Strong expertise in Kotlin and the Android SDK (required)
- Experience as a Team Lead with substantial people management: task breakdown, workload balancing, delivery tracking, unblocking, mentoring, and technical feedback (required)
- Experience running code reviews and setting up efficient, reliable review processes (required)
- Strong understanding of HTTP/API and client-server communication (required)
- Mandatory experience in traffic arbitrage with Android and/or iOS applications (required)
- Solid understanding of the development, support, and lifecycle of arbitrage mobile apps (required)
- Practical experience with AppsFlyer, Firebase, OneSignal, attribution, deep linking, push notifications, remote config, and other third-party mobile services (required)
- Ability to quickly onboard onto existing codebases and work effectively with unfamiliar code (required)
- Flexibility in finding alternative technical approaches for gray-area application logic, especially when standard solutions are not viable (required)
- Hands-on experience using AI Code Agents (Cursor, Codex, etc.) in development, code review, or engineering workflows (required)
- Cross-platform mobile experience (required)
- Understanding of native vs cross-platform approaches, including their trade-offs (required)
- Backend and/or frontend development experience (required)
- Familiarity with trackers and TDS platforms (Keitaro or similar) (required)
- Hands-on work with Google Play Console, including publishing, signing, review, and updates (required)
- Experience building or supporting WebView-based applications (required)
- Practical experience setting up and maintaining CI/CD (required)
- Exposure to analytics and anti-fraud solutions (required)
- High sense of ownership and independence (required)
- Excellent team collaboration skills (required)
- Ability to deliver results without constant top-down control (required)
Benefits
- An exciting and challenging job in a fast-growing business group.
- Opportunity to be part of a multicultural team of top professionals in Development, Architecture, Management, Operations, Marketing, Legal, Finance and more.
- Great working atmosphere with passionate experts and leaders, sharing a friendly culture and a success-driven mindset.
- Beautiful offices in Warsaw, Limassol, Yerevan with the option to work remotely or on-site.
- Modern corporate equipment based on macOS or Windows and additional equipment provided.
- Paid vacations, sick leave, personal events days, and days off.
- Referral program with bonuses.
- Educational programs including regular internal training sessions, compensation for external education, and attendance of specialised global conferences.
- Rewards program for mentoring and coaching colleagues.
- In-house Travel Service.
- Multiple internal activities including an online platform for employees with quests, gamification, presents, news, and RedCore clubs for movie, book, and pet lovers.
- Company events and team buildings.
About Pin-Up Global
PIN-UP Global is an international holding company that develops technologies, B2B solutions and products for the iGaming industry. Headquartered in Warsaw, the group brings together businesses spanning product development, technology and marketing services for online gaming. It supports a portfolio of companies and brands operating across multiple markets. PIN-UP Global focuses on building advanced technology and products for the gambling sector.
