Remote Android Core Product Lead

Speechify; Polska; Hybrid; PLN 117,000 - 293,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus

Stock options

Job summary

Speechify is seeking a Team Lead for the Android Core Product based in Riga, Latvia, with remote work options. The role combines leadership with hands-on coding to own core Android features and drive the release process.

You will guide design decisions, review code, and ensure reliable, scalable functionality across Speechify's Android app, while mentoring engineers and contributing to product strategy. The ideal candidate has strong Kotlin skills, experience with MVVM and Clean Architecture,

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
• Something you introduced to a team that stuck after you stopped pushing it, and an honest account of what it cost to get there
• Some comfort with the unpopular half of the job: asking people to change how they work, and living with the friction that follows
• A view on which changes need heavy review and which don't, argued from what the system does
• A track record of building things the rest of your team actually used, not only things that made you faster
• The ability to describe how your team works with AI agents, not only how you do personally
• Product design intuition, user empathy, and the drive to push Android UI/UX further than the spec asks for
• Self-drive to improve the app and codebase beyond what's outlined in the spec

Responsibilities

• Own major features end to end, working closely with design to take from decision to release
• Own, maintain, and improve reliability metrics for key features
• Review pull requests and provide constructive feedback
• Unblock the team when someone is stuck and collaborate to resolve
• Champion changes when a single implementation should become the team standard
• Keep shared components well-maintained and reusable
• Lead process improvements and tooling for faster releases
• Reduce manual interventions to accelerate correct releases
• Address recurring problems by changing underlying setups
• Shift verification left with automated checks in nightly QA
• Lead planning to focus team effort on undecided work
• Assess review needs and ensure consistent sign-off
• Participate in cross-functional discussions early to align constraints
• Handle critical issues, releases, and nightly QA builds
• Mentor early-career engineers and provide growth opportunities

Skills

Kotlin

Coroutines

Flow

Dagger 2

MVVM

Clean Architecture

Background Services

Music Player

Android Animations

Jetpack Navigation

JUnit

Tools

Android Studio

Git

CI/CD

Job description

Speechify is seeking a Team Lead for the Android Core Product based in Riga, Latvia, with remote work options. The role combines leadership with hands-on coding to own core Android features and drive the release process.

You will guide design decisions, review code, and ensure reliable, scalable functionality across Speechify's Android app, while mentoring engineers and contributing to product strategy. The ideal candidate has strong Kotlin skills, experience with MVVM and Clean Architecture,