Android Core Product Lead — Hands-On, Impact-Driven

AI Chopping Block, Inc.; Reading; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Open source Android projects

Experience with iOS, Web, or NodeJS

Job summary

Speechify is seeking a hands-on Team Lead for Android to own core product work and raise how the team works around it. You will write code, review work, and own features end-to-end while guiding others toward reliable, scalable releases.

We are a distributed team with no office, so you will partner across functions and time zones to keep products moving and ensure the Android experience remains world-class. This role emphasizes leadership that enhances craftsmanship and collaboration.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience including team leadership
• Proven expertise in Kotlin and Android app architecture
• Experience shipping background audio or long-running background work
• Understanding of testing strategies and limitations
• Ability to introduce lasting process improvements
• Comfort with changing how teams work and managing friction
• Ability to decide when changes should be adopted by the team
• Track record of building reusable code used by teammates
• Ability to describe how your team works with AI agents

Responsibilities

• Own major features end to end, from design to release, collaborating with design
• Maintain and improve reliability metrics for key features
• Review pull requests and provide constructive feedback
• Unblock the team and resolve duplicated work
• Ensure codebase remains clean, tested, and consolidated
• Lead team process improvements and planning
• Participate in cross-functional discussions with Product, Design, and Engineering
• Handle critical issues and releases, provide nightly builds for QA
• Mentor and support early-career engineers

Skills

Kotlin

Kotlin Coroutines

Kotlin Flow

Dagger 2

MVVM

Clean Architecture

Background Services

Music Player Service

Android animations

Jetpack Navigation

JUnit tests

Team leadership

Background audio

Testing strategies

Process improvements

AI collaboration

Product design

Mentoring

Tools

Android Studio

Job description

Speechify is seeking a hands-on Team Lead for Android to own core product work and raise how the team works around it. You will write code, review work, and own features end-to-end while guiding others toward reliable, scalable releases.

We are a distributed team with no office, so you will partner across functions and time zones to keep products moving and ensure the Android experience remains world-class. This role emphasizes leadership that enhances craftsmanship and collaboration.