Android Core Product Lead (Hands-On) — Remote

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

Job summary

Speechify is seeking a Team Lead for Android to own core product work across our distributed team. You will write code, review it, and own features from conception to release, ensuring reliability and strong collaboration with design and product teams.

You will guide the team in building reusable components, maintaining performance, and improving testing and automation practices to deliver high-quality audio-focused experiences on Android.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering, with leadership or hands-on ownership of a major surface.
• Proven Kotlin expertise and experience with Android architecture patterns.
• Background in shipping and maintaining long-running background work or audio apps.
• Strong testing philosophy and ability to introduce lasting improvements.
• Track record of building components actually used by the team.

Responsibilities

• Own major features end-to-end with design collaboration and end-to-release ownership.
• Maintain reliability metrics for key features and review PRs with constructive feedback.
• Unblock the team and drive the right version for the whole team to use.
• Shift verification left and drive automated checks in nightly QA.
• Collaborate across Product, Design, and Engineering and mentor junior engineers.

Skills

Kotlin

Kotlin Coroutines

Kotlin Flow

Dagger 2

MVVM

Clean Architecture

Background Services

Music Player Service

Android Animations

Jetpack Navigation

JUnit tests

Tools

Room

Custom Views

Canvas & Paint

Jetpack Compose

Job description

Speechify is seeking a Team Lead for Android to own core product work across our distributed team. You will write code, review it, and own features from conception to release, ensuring reliability and strong collaboration with design and product teams.

You will guide the team in building reusable components, maintaining performance, and improving testing and automation practices to deliver high-quality audio-focused experiences on Android.