Lead Android Core Product Engineer - Remote

Canaan Partners; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Open source Android projects

Experience with iOS/Web/NodeJS

Job summary

Speechify is seeking a hands-on Team Lead for Android who will own major features end-to-end, write and review code, and improve reliability while guiding a growing team. You will unblock engineers, drive design decisions, and ensure code quality with robust testing.

Ideal candidates have deep Kotlin expertise and a track record of shipping high-quality Android experiences. Join a distributed team delivering audio-first reading tools with a focus on performance, UI/UX, and scalable architecture.

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
• 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
• Excellent communication skills

Responsibilities

• Own major features end to end, working closely with our design team — from the decision through to release. This is real delivery, not oversight
• Own, maintain, and improve reliability metrics for key features
• Review pull requests and give the kind of feedback people learn from, not just approval
• Unblock the team: notice when someone has been stuck on the same thing for two days, and go take a look yourself
• Notice when something one person built should become the version the team uses, and see that change through
• Keep the shared pieces in working order — tested, clear enough for someone else to pick up, and consolidated when three versions of the same thing appear
• Call it when the team is ready to change how it works, rather than waiting for that to happen on its own
• Reduce how much manual intervention it takes to get a correct release out
• When the same problem shows up twice, get the underlying setup changed so there isn't a third time
• Shift verification left: grow what can be checked automatically so the nightly build going to QA is a confirmation rather than the first time anyone finds out
• Run planning so the team's attention goes to the work that still needs decisions rather than the work that's already clear
• Work out how much review each area needs, and where a person always signs off regardless
• Participate in discussions across Product, Design, and Engineering, and bring the team's constraints into those rooms early
• Handle critical issues, own feature releases, and provide nightly builds for the QA team
• Make sure the people early in their careers are getting work they can learn from, and the time to learn from it

Skills

Team leadership

Hands-on coding

Android development

Kotlin

Kotlin Coroutines

Kotlin Flow

Dagger 2

MVVM

Jetpack Navigation

Unit testing (JUnit)

Communication skills

Product design intuition

AI collaboration

Tools

Kotlin

Kotlin Coroutines

Kotlin Flow

Dagger 2

MVVM

Jetpack Navigation

Room

Jetpack Compose

JUnit

Job description

Speechify is seeking a hands-on Team Lead for Android who will own major features end-to-end, write and review code, and improve reliability while guiding a growing team. You will unblock engineers, drive design decisions, and ensure code quality with robust testing.

Ideal candidates have deep Kotlin expertise and a track record of shipping high-quality Android experiences. Join a distributed team delivering audio-first reading tools with a focus on performance, UI/UX, and scalable architecture.