Team Lead, Android Core Product - Tampere, Finland

RemoteWork; Tampere; Hybrid; EUR 107,000 - 161,000; Full time

Job summary

Speechify is a 100 percent distributed company delivering text-to-speech products across platforms. The Team Lead will own core Android product work, write and review code, and guide the team from concept to release.

You will drive end-to-end Android features, improve reliability metrics, and mentor teammates. The role requires strong Kotlin, Android architecture, and collaboration with Product and Design in a fully remote setting.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience with team leadership or owning a major surface while remaining hands-on.
• Strong Kotlin expertise including Coroutines, Flow, Dagger 2, MVVM, Clean Architecture.
• Experience with Android background services, music playback, animations, Jetpack components, and testing (JUnit).
• Proven ability to ship features that are used by teams, not just to move faster.
• Comfort with change management and driving process improvements across a team.
• Good communication skills and ability to collaborate with Product and Design.

Responsibilities

• Own major Android features end to end from decision to release
• Maintain and improve reliability metrics for key features
• Review pull requests and provide actionable feedback
• Unblock the team when progress stalls and ensure cohesive versioning
• Shift verification left and automate where possible for nightly builds
• Participate in cross functional discussions with Product and Design

Skills

Kotlin

Android development

Coroutines

Flow

Dagger 2

MVVM

Clean Architecture

Jetpack components

JUnit

Job description

About the role

Speechify is a 100 percent distributed company building text-to-speech products across platforms. The Team Lead will own core Android product work, write and review code, and guide the team through feature delivery from concept to release.

What you’ll do

• Own major Android features end to end from decision to release
• Maintain and improve reliability metrics for key features
• Review pull requests and provide actionable feedback
• Unblock the team when progress stalls and ensure cohesive versioning
• Shift verification left and automate where possible for nightly builds
• Participate in cross functional discussions with Product and Design

What they’re looking for

• 5+ years of software engineering experience with team leadership or owning a major surface while remaining hands-on
• Strong Kotlin expertise including Coroutines, Flow, Dagger 2, MVVM, Clean Architecture
• Experience with Android background services, music playback, animations, Jetpack components, and testing (JUnit)
• Proven ability to ship features that are used by teams, not just to move faster
• Comfort with change management and driving process improvements across a team
• Good communication skills and ability to collaborate with Product and Design

For applicants in Nigeria

• The listing states remote work and does not specify country restrictions beyond being remote; Nigeria is not excluded by the text
• Timezone requirements are not specified; confirm during interview
• Pay currency is shown as USD per year for Finland base salary; no explicit Nigerian pay currency or range provided
• Contractor vs employee status is not stated; confirm during interview