Android Core Product Lead — Remote, Hands-on & Impactful

Speechify; Sacramento, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Speechify is seeking a Team Lead for the Android Core Product in Sacramento, CA, with remote options. You will own major features end-to-end, write code, review PRs, and guide the team to deliver reliable, user-focused experiences.

You'll collaborate across Product, Design, and Engineering, mentor junior engineers, and help shape the Android UX beyond the spec. Speechify operates fully distributed with strong emphasis on velocity and quality.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering, 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, Android animations, Jetpack Navigation, and JUnit tests.
• Experience shipping and maintaining background audio or other long-running background work.
• Understanding of tests and how to approach writing them, including what can't be covered by them.
• Something you introduced to a team that stuck after you stopped pushing it, and an honest account of what it cost to get there.
• Comfort with asking people to change how they work and living with the friction that follows.

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 when someone is stuck and guide the version everyone should use.
• Ensure shared pieces are well-maintained and can be picked up by others.
• Drive planning and automation to reduce manual release work.
• Collaborate with Product, Design, and Engineering to align constraints early.
• Mentor engineers early in their careers and help them learn.

Skills

Kotlin

Android development

Team leadership

Code review

MVVM / Clean Architecture

CI/CD

Performance optimization

Tools

JUnit

Android Studio

Job description

Speechify is seeking a Team Lead for the Android Core Product in Sacramento, CA, with remote options. You will own major features end-to-end, write code, review PRs, and guide the team to deliver reliable, user-focused experiences.

You'll collaborate across Product, Design, and Engineering, mentor junior engineers, and help shape the Android UX beyond the spec. Speechify operates fully distributed with strong emphasis on velocity and quality.