Senior Android Core Product Lead (Remote)

Speechify; Polska; Hybrid; PLN 117,000 - 352,000; Full time

Job summary

Speechify seeks a Team Lead for Android Core Product in Vilnius with a remote-first posture. You will own end-to-end features, guide design and engineering, and maintain reliability metrics.

The role requires hands-on coding, code reviews, and coordinating across teams to ensure cohesive releases. The ideal candidate has 5+ years in software engineering, deep Kotlin/Kotlin Coroutines experience, and a track record of shipping background audio work.

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
• 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 our design team — from the decision through to release
• Own, maintain, and improve reliability metrics for key features
• Review pull requests and give detailed feedback
• Unblock the team when stuck
• Coordinate when a component should be adopted as the standard across the team
• Keep shared pieces in working order and consolidated when duplicates appear
• Lead changes in how the team works and optimize release processes
• Reduce manual intervention to ensure correct releases
• Address recurring problems by adjusting underlying setup
• Shift verification left to automate nightly QA checks
• Run planning to focus on undecided work
• Assess review requirements across areas and ensure consistent sign-off
• Participate in cross-functional discussions early and align constraints
• Handle critical issues and provide nightly builds for QA
• Mentor junior teammates and ensure learning opportunities

Skills

Kotlin

Kotlin Coroutines

Kotlin Flow

Dagger 2

MVVM

Clean Architecture

Background Services

Music Player Service

Android animations

Jetpack Navigation

JUnit tests

Tools

Android

Job description

Speechify seeks a Team Lead for Android Core Product in Vilnius with a remote-first posture. You will own end-to-end features, guide design and engineering, and maintain reliability metrics.

The role requires hands-on coding, code reviews, and coordinating across teams to ensure cohesive releases. The ideal candidate has 5+ years in software engineering, deep Kotlin/Kotlin Coroutines experience, and a track record of shipping background audio work.