Android Core Product Lead - Hands-On & Impact

Speechify; Stony Brook, Northern (NY, KY); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Speechify, a remote-first leader in text-to-speech, seeks a Team Lead for Android Core Product in the Stony Brook, NY area. You will own major features end-to-end, write and review code, and guide the team to deliver high-quality Android experiences across Speechify apps.

This hands-on leadership role combines coding with architectural influence and cross-functional collaboration. Ideal candidates have extensive Kotlin experience, strong Android engineering skills, and a track record of shipping

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience, including time leading a team or owning a major surface while staying hands-on.
• Proven expertise in Kotlin, Coroutines, Flow, Dagger 2, MVVM, Clean Architecture, Background Services, and Android UI/UX advances.
• Experience shipping and maintaining background audio or other long-running background work.
• Strong testing culture and ability to design or improve test coverage.
• Comfort leading change, guiding teams through friction, and driving outcomes beyond individual work.
• Proven track record delivering usable features the team actually uses; capable of describing team workflows with AI agents.

Responsibilities

• Own major Android features end to end, from design through release, in collaboration with design and engineering teams.
• Maintain and improve reliability metrics for key features and oversee code reviews and guidance.
• Unblock the team and coordinate when multiple solutions exist to align on a single approach.
• Ensure shared components stay maintained, tested, and accessible for future work.
• Lead planning and estimation to focus the team's effort on decisions and impactful work.
• Contribute to discussions across Product, Design, and Engineering, incorporating constraints early.

Skills

Kotlin

Kotlin Coroutines

Kotlin Flow

Dagger 2

MVVM

Android animations

Jetpack Navigation

JUnit tests

Team Leadership

Android development

Job description

Speechify, a remote-first leader in text-to-speech, seeks a Team Lead for Android Core Product in the Stony Brook, NY area. You will own major features end-to-end, write and review code, and guide the team to deliver high-quality Android experiences across Speechify apps.

This hands-on leadership role combines coding with architectural influence and cross-functional collaboration. Ideal candidates have extensive Kotlin experience, strong Android engineering skills, and a track record of shipping