Lead Android Core Product Engineer (Remote)

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

Job summary

Speechify is a 100% distributed company and a leader in text-to-speech tech. We seek an Android Team Lead to own core product work, write and review code, and drive end-to-end features with a focus on reliability and performance.

You’ll collaborate with Product, Design, and Engineering to push Android UI/UX beyond the spec while mentoring junior colleagues and delivering high-quality releases quickly.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience with leadership responsibilities.
• Expert Kotlin and Android stack (Kotlin, Coroutines, Flow, Dagger 2, MVVM).
• Experience shipping and maintaining background audio or long-running tasks.
• Strong testing mindset and awareness of test coverage limits.
• Proven ability to introduce lasting process improvements.

Responsibilities

• Own major features end to end with design collaboration and release.
• Maintain and improve reliability metrics for key features.
• Review pull requests and provide constructive feedback.
• Unblock the team when blockers occur and drive decisions.
• Ensure code and architecture are maintainable and scalable.
• Guide the team in reducing manual steps to releases.
• Plan and orchestrate verification and release processes.
• Balance reviews and autonomy to maximize team velocity.
• Collaborate with Product, Design, and Engineering early on constraints.
• Support junior engineers and provide learning opportunities.

Skills

Team leadership

Android engineering

Kotlin

Code review

Communication

Tools

Kotlin Coroutines

Dagger 2

MVVM

Jetpack Navigation

JUnit

Android Animations

Job description

Speechify is a 100% distributed company and a leader in text-to-speech tech. We seek an Android Team Lead to own core product work, write and review code, and drive end-to-end features with a focus on reliability and performance.

You’ll collaborate with Product, Design, and Engineering to push Android UI/UX beyond the spec while mentoring junior colleagues and delivering high-quality releases quickly.