Lead Android Core Product Engineer (Hands-On, Kotlin)

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

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus

Stock options

Job summary

Speechify is seeking an experienced Team Lead for Android to own core product work and shape how the team operates. You will write code, review PRs, and own features end-to-end while mentoring others and strengthening engineering culture.

You will work with Kotlin, MVVM, Jetpack, and AI-driven workflows in a distributed team. This is a US-based remote role with stock opportunities and strong growth potential.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience with hands-on leadership.
• Strong Kotlin and Android architecture expertise.
• Experience shipping long-running background tasks.
• Proven ability to drive teams to deliver with AI integration awareness.

Responsibilities

• Own major features end to end, working closely with our design team — from the decision through to release.
• Maintain reliability metrics for key features.
• Review pull requests and provide actionable feedback.
• Unblock the team: identify blockers and address them.
• Lead planning and coordinate across Product, Design, and Engineering.
• Ensure code is reusable and well-documented.

Skills

Kotlin

Team leadership

Android development

Testing practices

AI integration

Tools

Dagger 2

Jetpack Compose

JUnit

Job description

Speechify is seeking an experienced Team Lead for Android to own core product work and shape how the team operates. You will write code, review PRs, and own features end-to-end while mentoring others and strengthening engineering culture.

You will work with Kotlin, MVVM, Jetpack, and AI-driven workflows in a distributed team. This is a US-based remote role with stock opportunities and strong growth potential.