Lead Android Core Product Engineer - Remote

Canaan Partners; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Speechify is seeking a Team Lead for our Android product who will own major features end to end, writing code, reviewing code, and delivering impact. You will partner with design, QA, and product to ship reliable features and maintain nightly builds.

This hands-on leadership role requires mentoring junior engineers, improving release processes, and guiding the team through technical decisions while maintaining a fast, high-quality release cadence.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience with hands-on team leadership.
• Strong Kotlin and Android development experience, including modern Android tools.
• Experience shipping and maintaining long-running background work.
• Solid testing approach with an emphasis on verifiable quality.
• Proven track record of delivering impact through team collaboration and decisions.
• Comfort with guiding changes and managing cross-functional discussions.

Responsibilities

• Own major features end to end, collaborating with design and release teams.
• Maintain reliability metrics for key features and improve release processes.
• Review pull requests and provide constructive feedback to peers.
• Unblock the team and drive decisions to minimize duplicate effort.
• Ensure repeatable, well-documented handoffs so others can pick up work.
• Lead planning and balance work with strategic project goals.
• Mentor junior engineers and foster practical growth through code and reviews.
• Collaborate with Product, Design, and Engineering to align constraints early.
• Own feature releases and provide nightly builds for QA.
• Drive AI-assisted workflows and advance Android UI/UX beyond the base spec.

Skills

Kotlin

Android Development

Team Leadership

MVVM

JUnit Testing

Tools

JUnit

Jetpack Compose

Dagger 2

Room

Job description

Speechify is seeking a Team Lead for our Android product who will own major features end to end, writing code, reviewing code, and delivering impact. You will partner with design, QA, and product to ship reliable features and maintain nightly builds.

This hands-on leadership role requires mentoring junior engineers, improving release processes, and guiding the team through technical decisions while maintaining a fast, high-quality release cadence.