Android Core Product Lead (Hands-On) — Remote

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

Job summary

Speechify is seeking an experienced Android Team Lead to own core product work for our 100% distributed team. You’ll write code, review code, and own features end-to-end, while guiding engineers and collaborating with design and product to ship high-quality experiences.

Based in the United States, you will help shape architecture, improve release reliability, and mentor engineers early in their careers. This hands-on role balances coding and technical leadership in a fast-growing remote

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience, including time leading a team or owning a major surface while staying hands-on.
• Strong experience with Android development, Kotlin, and modern Android architecture.
• Proven ability to ship features end-to-end with QA and design teams.

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
• Unblock the team and proactively resolve blockers
• Drive changes so the team uses the best version of shared components
• Keep shared pieces well-documented and maintainable
• Advocate for process improvements and shift verification left
• Plan work so the team focuses on decisions and outcomes
• Balance review workload and engineer autonomy
• Collaborate with Product, Design, and Engineering early to align constraints
• Handle critical issues, own feature releases, and provide nightly builds for QA
• Mentor early-career engineers and foster learning

Skills

Hands-on leadership

Team mentoring

Excellent communication

Android architecture

Code review

Tools

Kotlin

Kotlin Coroutines

Kotlin Flow

Dagger 2

MVVM

Jetpack Compose

JUnit

Room

Job description

Speechify is seeking an experienced Android Team Lead to own core product work for our 100% distributed team. You’ll write code, review code, and own features end-to-end, while guiding engineers and collaborating with design and product to ship high-quality experiences.

Based in the United States, you will help shape architecture, improve release reliability, and mentor engineers early in their careers. This hands-on role balances coding and technical leadership in a fast-growing remote