Hands-On Android Core Product Lead (Remote)

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

Job summary

Speechify seeks an experienced Android Team Lead to own core product work and raise how the team operates. This hands-on role includes writing and reviewing code, owning features end-to-end, and ensuring timely, reliable releases.

You will collaborate with Product, Design, and Engineering, unblock blockers, and mentor engineers while driving Android UI/UX improvements beyond the spec.

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
• Experience shipping and maintaining background audio or other long-running background work
• Understanding of tests and how to approach writing them
• Experience introducing a practice that stuck
• Comfort with unpopular changes and friction
• Ability to prioritize changes and review depth
• Track record of building usable features
• Ability to describe how your team works with AI agents
• Product design intuition, user empathy, and driving Android UI/UX beyond spec
• Self-drive to improve app and codebase

Responsibilities

• Own major features end to end, working with design from decision to release
• Maintain and improve reliability metrics for key features
• Review pull requests and give constructive feedback
• Unblock the team when blockers last for days
• Ensure versions used by the team are consolidated
• Maintain testable, clear shared components
• Lead change when team needs to adapt its workflow
• Reduce manual steps to achieve a correct release
• Address recurring problems by changing underlying setup
• Shift verification left so nightly QA is a confirmation
• Lead planning to focus on decisions still needed
• Assess review effort per area and sign-offs
• Participate in cross-functional discussions early
• Handle critical issues and nightly builds for QA
• Mentor junior engineers and provide learning opportunities

Skills

5+ years

Kotlin

Kotlin Coroutines

Kotlin Flow

Dagger 2

MVVM

Clean Architecture

Unit testing (JUnit)

Android UI/UX

Tools

Room

Jetpack Compose

JUnit

Dagger 2

Job description

Speechify seeks an experienced Android Team Lead to own core product work and raise how the team operates. This hands-on role includes writing and reviewing code, owning features end-to-end, and ensuring timely, reliable releases.

You will collaborate with Product, Design, and Engineering, unblock blockers, and mentor engineers while driving Android UI/UX improvements beyond the spec.