Android Core Product Lead - Hands-on & Remote

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

Job summary

Speechify is hiring a Team Lead to own core Android product work and elevate how the team collaborates. This hands-on role requires writing and reviewing code, owning features, and guiding the team to deliver high‑quality releases.

You will run planning, review processes, and ensure reliable performance while mentoring engineers, including those early in their careers, across a distributed, remote-first environment.

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.

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 constructive feedback beyond approval.
• Unblock the team when progress stalls and drive critical decisions.
• Ensure shared components stay maintainable and comprehensible for future work.
• Lead planning and align team focus with product and QA.
• Deliver nightly builds for the QA team and manage feature releases.

Skills

5+ years

Kotlin

Kotlin Coroutines

Kotlin Flow

Dagger 2

MVVM

Clean Architecture

Background Services

Android animations

Jetpack Navigation

JUnit tests

Excellent communication

Tools

Kotlin

Kotlin Coroutines

Kotlin Flow

Jetpack Navigation

Dagger 2

Room

Custom Views

Canvas & Paint

Jetpack Compose

JUnit

Job description

Speechify is hiring a Team Lead to own core Android product work and elevate how the team collaborates. This hands-on role requires writing and reviewing code, owning features, and guiding the team to deliver high‑quality releases.

You will run planning, review processes, and ensure reliable performance while mentoring engineers, including those early in their careers, across a distributed, remote-first environment.