Android Tech Lead (Delivery Quality Team)

Department: Technology Delivery Hub

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.