Remote Android Core Product Lead (Hands-On)

Wwshemi; West of England; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 136,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work

Job summary

Speechify, a fully remote and globally distributed company, is seeking an Android Team Lead to own core product work and drive how the team delivers features end-to-end. You will code, review, and own the implementation of key features, while guiding the team toward reliable, scalable solutions.

You will lead with strong Kotlin expertise, manage long-running background tasks, and collaborate across Product, Design, and Engineering to push Android UI/UX beyond the spec.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience including hands-on team leadership.
• Strong Kotlin ecosystem proficiency with Coroutines, Flow, and modern Android architecture.
• Experience shipping and maintaining background audio features.
• Proven ability to drive team improvements and process changes.

Responsibilities

• Own major features end to end from design to release.
• Maintain reliability metrics for key features and improve them over time.
• Review pull requests and provide constructive feedback.
• Unblock the team when issues arise and ensure alignment on decisions.
• Keep shared components maintainable and well-documented.
• Shift verification left to automate nightly QA checks.
• Run planning to focus on remaining decision-driven work.
• Collaborate with Product, Design, and Engineering early to align constraints.

Skills

Kotlin

Kotlin Coroutines

Kotlin Flow

Dagger 2

MVVM

Clean Architecture

Background Services

JUnit tests

Code review

Job description

Speechify, a fully remote and globally distributed company, is seeking an Android Team Lead to own core product work and drive how the team delivers features end-to-end. You will code, review, and own the implementation of key features, while guiding the team toward reliable, scalable solutions.

You will lead with strong Kotlin expertise, manage long-running background tasks, and collaborate across Product, Design, and Engineering to push Android UI/UX beyond the spec.