Lead Android Core Product Engineer (Remote)

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

Job summary

Speechify is seeking a Team Lead for Android to own core product work and elevate team processes. This is a hands-on role requiring you to write and review code, own features end-to-end, and help the team ship reliable experiences across Android platforms.

You will lead planning, review PRs, and mentor engineers while collaborating with Product, Design, and QA. This is a remote, distributed role with a high-growth environment and competitive compensation.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering; hands-on leadership experience.
• Strong Kotlin expertise with modern Android architecture knowledge.
• Proven ability to own major features end-to-end and ship.
• Comfort shipping background audio or long-running tasks.
• Excellent communication and collaboration across teams.

Responsibilities

• Own major features end to end, from design through release.
• Maintain reliability metrics for key features and review PRs.
• Unblock the team and ensure efficient decision-making.
• Lead planning and coordinate with Product, Design, and Eng.
• Support junior engineers and mentor growth while remaining hands-on.

Skills

Kotlin

Kotlin Coroutines

Kotlin Flow

Dagger 2

MVVM

Clean Architecture

Background Services

Android animations

Jetpack Navigation

JUnit tests

Tools

Room

Jetpack Compose

Jetpack Navigation

Dagger 2

JUnit

Custom Views

Job description

Speechify is seeking a Team Lead for Android to own core product work and elevate team processes. This is a hands-on role requiring you to write and review code, own features end-to-end, and help the team ship reliable experiences across Android platforms.

You will lead planning, review PRs, and mentor engineers while collaborating with Product, Design, and QA. This is a remote, distributed role with a high-growth environment and competitive compensation.