Lead Android Core Product Engineer - Remote

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

Job summary

Speechify is seeking a Team Lead for Android Core Product in Louisville, KY. This remote role combines hands-on coding with team leadership to drive end-to-end features on our Android app, while maintaining code quality and reliability.

You will collaborate across Product, Design, and Engineering to deliver impactful UI/UX, improve testing and release processes, and mentor early-career engineers. A strong Kotlin/Android background and ability to influence change are essential.

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 the importance 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 the unpopular half of the job: asking people to change how they work, and living with the friction that follows.
• A view on which changes need heavy review and which don't, argued from what the system does.
• A track record of building things the rest of your team actually used, not only things that made you faster.
• The ability to describe how your team works with AI agents, not only how you do personally.
• Product design intuition, user empathy, and the drive to push Android UI/UX further than the spec asks for.
• Self-drive to improve the app and codebase beyond what's outlined in the spec.

Responsibilities

• Own major features end to end, from decision to release, in collaboration with design.
• Maintain and improve reliability metrics for key features.
• Review pull requests with constructive feedback.
• Unblock the team when blockers occur and guide resolution.
• Identify when a component should be adopted team-wide and drive the change.
• Keep shared components in good order and avoid divergence.
• Lead necessary process changes instead of waiting for them to happen.
• Reduce manual steps to achieve a correct release.
• Address recurring problems by changing underlying setups.
• Shift verification left to automate nightly QA checks.
• Plan sprints to emphasize remaining decision points over obvious work.
• Estimate review effort per area and set clear sign-off expectations.
• Participate in cross-functional discussions early to align constraints.
• Handle critical issues, own releases, and provide nightly builds for QA.
• Mentor early-career engineers and ensure learning time.

Skills

Android development

Team leadership

Communication

Code review

Product collaboration

Tools

Kotlin

Kotlin Coroutines

Kotlin Flow

Dagger 2

MVVM

Clean Architecture

JUnit

Jetpack Navigation

Android Animations

Music Player Service

Job description

Speechify is seeking a Team Lead for Android Core Product in Louisville, KY. This remote role combines hands-on coding with team leadership to drive end-to-end features on our Android app, while maintaining code quality and reliability.

You will collaborate across Product, Design, and Engineering to deliver impactful UI/UX, improve testing and release processes, and mentor early-career engineers. A strong Kotlin/Android background and ability to influence change are essential.