Hands-On Lead, Android Core Product (Remote)

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

Job summary

Speechify is seeking a Team Lead for Android who will own core product work and shape how the team operates. This hands-on role requires coding, code reviews, and end-to-end ownership of features from ideation to release.

You will drive reliability, mentoring, and fast, high-quality delivery across design, product, and engineering. The ideal candidate has 5+ years of software engineering experience, deep Kotlin expertise, and a track record of shipping long-running background services and

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 the importance of tests and how to approach writing them, including what can't be covered by them.

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 to help the team learn.
• Unblock the team: identify blockers and address them.
• Coordinate changes so the team uses the best version of a feature.
• Keep shared components robust, well-documented, and consistent across versions.
• Drive changes in how the team works when needed.
• Reduce manual steps to achieve a reliable release.
• Address recurring issues by changing the underlying setup.
• Shift verification left with automated checks before QA nights.
• Plan sprints to focus on undecided work.
• Assess review needs across areas and set clear sign-off points.
• Participate in cross-functional discussions early with Product, Design, and Engineering.
• Handle critical issues, own feature releases, and provide nightly builds for QA.
• Mentor early-career engineers and provide learning opportunities.

Skills

Excellent communication skills

Product design intuition

User empathy

AI agents integration

Team leadership

Code reviews

Tools

Kotlin

Kotlin Coroutines

Kotlin Flow

Dagger 2

MVVM

Clean Architecture

Background Services

Music Player Service

Android animations

Jetpack Navigation

JUnit

Room

Jetpack Compose

Job description

Speechify is seeking a Team Lead for Android who will own core product work and shape how the team operates. This hands-on role requires coding, code reviews, and end-to-end ownership of features from ideation to release.

You will drive reliability, mentoring, and fast, high-quality delivery across design, product, and engineering. The ideal candidate has 5+ years of software engineering experience, deep Kotlin expertise, and a track record of shipping long-running background services and