Hands-On Android Core Product Lead

Speechify; Polska; Hybrid; PLN 430,000 - 665,000; Full time

Job summary

Speechify is seeking a hands-on Team Lead for Android to own major features end to end, write and review code, and drive reliable releases. You will mentor engineers, improve build processes, and collaborate with Product and Design to ship features that enhance the user experience. Remote-friendly and distributed team environment.

You will lead critical releases, tighten testing, and ensure consistent code quality while growing the team and process around Android development.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience, including time leading a team or owning a major surface while staying hands‑on
• Rock solid Kotlin, Kotlin Coroutines, Kotlin Flow, Dagger 2, MVVM, Clean Architecture, Background Services, Music Player Service, Android animations, Jetpack Navigation, and JUnit tests
• Experience shipping and maintaining background audio or other long‑running background work
• Understanding of the importance of tests and how to approach writing them, including what can't be covered by them
• A track record of building things the rest of your team actually used, not only things that made you faster

Responsibilities

• Own major features end to end, working closely with our design team - from the decision through to release
• Own, maintain, and improve reliability metrics for key features
• Review pull requests and give constructive feedback
• Unblock the team when blockers occur and guide resolution
• Champion versioning and consolidate shared code bases
• Keep codebase clean and understandable for future contributors
• Lead process improvements and advocate for efficient team workflows
• Manage automated verification and nightly builds for QA
• Mentor junior engineers and provide learning opportunities
• Collaborate with Product, Design, and Engineering to align constraints

Skills

Kotlin

Coroutines

Flow

Dagger 2

MVVM

Clean Architecture

Background Services

Music Player Service

Android animations

Jetpack Navigation

JUnit tests

Job description

Speechify is seeking a hands-on Team Lead for Android to own major features end to end, write and review code, and drive reliable releases. You will mentor engineers, improve build processes, and collaborate with Product and Design to ship features that enhance the user experience. Remote-friendly and distributed team environment.

You will lead critical releases, tighten testing, and ensure consistent code quality while growing the team and process around Android development.