Hands-On Android Core Product Lead — Remote

Speechify; Polska; Hybrid; PLN 117,000 - 391,000; Full time

Job summary

Speechify seeks a hands-on Team Lead to own core Android features end-to-end in a fully remote, distributed setting. You’ll write and review code, own reliability metrics, and guide teammates while shipping user-facing audio experiences across platforms.

You will mentor junior engineers, drive design decisions, and collaborate with Product and Design to push Android UI/UX beyond the spec. A strong track record in Kotlin-based mobile engineering is essential.

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 tests and how to approach writing them, including what can't be covered by them.

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 feedback that helps others learn
• Unblock the team when blockers occur and push for progress
• Ensure changes become the standard across the team when appropriate
• Keep shared code and assets well-organized and maintainable
• Drive changes in how the team works when needed
• Reduce manual steps to achieve a correct release
• Address recurring issues by changing underlying setups
• Shift verification left to automate nightly QA checks
• Plan sprints to focus on decisions that still require attention
• Balance review load and know when teammates can sign off
• Participate in cross-functional discussions early with Product and Design
• Handle critical issues, releases, and nightly QA builds
• Mentor junior engineers to grow and learn from projects

Skills

5+ years experience

Team leadership

Kotlin

Kotlin Coroutines

Kotlin Flow

Android MVVM & Clean Architecture

Background audio experience

Code reviews & mentoring

AI with agents

Product design intuition

Self-drive & learning

Tools

Kotlin Coroutines

Kotlin Flow

Dagger 2

MVVM

Jetpack Navigation

JUnit tests

Android animations

Job description

Speechify seeks a hands-on Team Lead to own core Android features end-to-end in a fully remote, distributed setting. You’ll write and review code, own reliability metrics, and guide teammates while shipping user-facing audio experiences across platforms.

You will mentor junior engineers, drive design decisions, and collaborate with Product and Design to push Android UI/UX beyond the spec. A strong track record in Kotlin-based mobile engineering is essential.