Android Core Product Lead - Hands-On Impact

Canaan Partners; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus

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Job summary

Speechify, a remote-first software company, seeks a Team Lead for its Android platform to own core features end-to-end. You will write and review code, own releases, and ensure reliability while guiding a distributed team.

The role emphasizes hands-on leadership, strong communication, and a track record of shipping high-quality mobile applications. You will collaborate across Product, Design, and Engineering to push Android UI/UX beyond the spec, mentor junior engineers, and drive automated

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 write them, including limits of test coverage.
• Ability to introduce lasting improvements that stick after you leave a team.
• Comfort with driving change and handling friction when reorganizing work.

Responsibilities

• Own major features end to end, from design to release, in close collaboration with design.
• Maintain and improve reliability metrics for key features.
• Review pull requests with constructive feedback beyond approvals.
• Unblock the team and proactively address roadblocks.
• Promote code reuse by consolidating similar implementations.
• Ensure maintainable, well-documented shared components.

Skills

Leadership experience

Kotlin

Android architecture

Testing mindset

Code ownership

Communication skills

AI/automation awareness

Tools

Kotlin Coroutines

Kotlin Flow

Dagger 2

MVVM

Jetpack Navigation

JUnit

Room

Job description

Speechify, a remote-first software company, seeks a Team Lead for its Android platform to own core features end-to-end. You will write and review code, own releases, and ensure reliability while guiding a distributed team.

The role emphasizes hands-on leadership, strong communication, and a track record of shipping high-quality mobile applications. You will collaborate across Product, Design, and Engineering to push Android UI/UX beyond the spec, mentor junior engineers, and drive automated