Android Core Product Lead

AI Chopping Block, Inc.; West of England; Hybrid; GBP 85,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

Speechify is seeking an experienced Android Team Lead to own core product work and guide the team in delivering features from concept to release. You will code, review, and own functionality while ensuring reliability and timely decisions.

You will help shape processes, mentor engineers, and collaborate with Product and Design to push Android UI/UX beyond the spec. This is a remote, hands-on leadership role in a distributed company.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience with team leadership or owning a major surface while remaining hands-on.
• Strong Kotlin and Android architecture experience, including MVVM and clean architecture.
• Experience shipping and maintaining background audio or long-running background work.
• Understanding of tests and their limitations, with practical testing approaches.
• Proven ability to drive change and mentor teammates.

Responsibilities

• Own major features end to end, collaborating with design to deliver from decision through release.
• Maintain and improve reliability metrics for key features.
• Review pull requests and provide constructive, learning feedback.
• Unblock the team when stuck and consolidate multiple versions into a single approach.
• Lead process improvements, planning, and cross-functional discussions.

Skills

Kotlin

Kotlin Coroutines

Kotlin Flow

Dagger 2

MVVM

Clean Architecture

Android background services

JUnit

Android animations

Job description

Speechify is seeking an experienced Android Team Lead to own core product work and guide the team in delivering features from concept to release. You will code, review, and own functionality while ensuring reliability and timely decisions.

You will help shape processes, mentor engineers, and collaborate with Product and Design to push Android UI/UX beyond the spec. This is a remote, hands-on leadership role in a distributed company.