Android Core Product Lead - Remote & Hands-On

Speechify; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Speechify is seeking a remote Team Lead to own core product features end-to-end, write and review code, and guide the release process. The role emphasizes strong technical leadership and fast, reliable delivery in a fully distributed team.

The candidate will balance hands-on coding with leadership duties, ensuring features ships with quality and speed, while shaping how the team works and collaborates across time zones.

Qualifications

• Experience leading software teams.
• Ability to own features from design to release.
• Proficiency with code reviews and PR feedback.
• Experience with release engineering and automation.

Responsibilities

• Own major features end-to-end with design collaboration and release.
• Maintain and improve reliability metrics for key features.
• Review pull requests and provide constructive feedback.
• Unblock the team when blockers arise and guide decision-making.
• Encourage consolidation and standardization across the codebase.
• Lead changes in process and tooling where needed.
• Reduce manual steps to ensure smooth releases.
• Address recurring problems by improving underlying setup.
• Prefer automated verification and shift left for quality checks.

Skills

Team leadership

End-to-end ownership

Code review

Release engineering

Reliability metrics

Cross-functional collaboration

Tools

Git

CI/CD

Docker

Job description

Speechify is seeking a remote Team Lead to own core product features end-to-end, write and review code, and guide the release process. The role emphasizes strong technical leadership and fast, reliable delivery in a fully distributed team.

The candidate will balance hands-on coding with leadership duties, ensuring features ships with quality and speed, while shaping how the team works and collaborates across time zones.