Android Core Product Lead — Hands-on, Remote

Canaan Partners; United States; Remote; USD 30,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Speechify is hiring a Team Lead for Android who will own core product work end-to-end. You will write and review code, own features, and ensure reliable releases across Android platforms (Android app, iOS/Web extensions).

This hands-on role requires Kotlin expertise, a background in audio-related work, and ability to drive team-wide improvements. The role emphasizes collaboration with Product, Design, and Engineering, rapid decision-making, and mentoring junior engineers.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering, including leadership or owning a major surface while hands-on.
• Strong Kotlin expertise across Coroutines, Flow, and related Android tech.
• Experience shipping and maintaining background audio or long-running tasks.
• Understanding tests and how to approach test coverage.
• Ability to drive change and handle friction in teams.
• Proven track record of delivering usable, production features.

Responsibilities

• Own major features end to end, from design to release, with design collaboration.
• Maintain and improve reliability metrics for key features.
• Review pull requests and provide constructive feedback.
• Unblock the team and proactively address bottlenecks.
• Lead planning to focus on decisions still needed.
• Coordinate with Product, Design, and Eng to align constraints.

Skills

5+ years experience

Kotlin

Kotlin Coroutines

Kotlin Flow

Dagger 2

MVVM

Clean Architecture

Background Services

Android animations

Jetpack Navigation

JUnit tests

AI integration

Product design intuition

User empathy

Excellent communication

Tools

Kotlin

Jetpack Compose

Room

Custom Views

Canvas & Paint

Job description

Speechify is hiring a Team Lead for Android who will own core product work end-to-end. You will write and review code, own features, and ensure reliable releases across Android platforms (Android app, iOS/Web extensions).

This hands-on role requires Kotlin expertise, a background in audio-related work, and ability to drive team-wide improvements. The role emphasizes collaboration with Product, Design, and Engineering, rapid decision-making, and mentoring junior engineers.