Android Tech Lead (Delivery Quality Team) – Kazakhstan
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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
