Lead Android Core Product Engineer (Remote)

Canaan Partners; United States; Remote; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Speechify is seeking a Team Lead for Android to own core product work, write and review code, and guide a distributed team. You’ll partner across Product, Design, and Engineering to deliver features with fast iteration and robust quality.

The role emphasizes hands-on coding, delivering scalable architecture, and coaching junior engineers in a fast-paced environment. You will drive reliability, lead nightlies for QA, and champion best practices in testing and CI.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience, including time leading a team or owning a major surface while staying hands-on.
• Strong Kotlin, Kotlin Coroutines, Kotlin Flow, Dagger 2, MVVM, Clean Architecture, Background Services, Android animations, Jetpack Navigation, and JUnit tests.
• Experience shipping and maintaining background audio or other long-running background work.
• Understanding of tests and how to approach writing them, including what can't be covered by them.
• Proven track record of delivering features that are actually used by the rest of the team.

Responsibilities

• Own major features end to end, from design through release, collaborating with design and product teams.
• Maintain and improve reliability metrics for key features and nightlies for QA.
• Review pull requests with constructive feedback and guidance.
• Unblock teammates by proactively addressing blockers and driving momentum.
• Champion the versioning and consolidation of shared components across the codebase.
• Lead teams in evolving processes and shift verification left to automate checks.
• Plan sprints so the team focuses on decisions and areas needing clarity.
• Balance code quality with rapid delivery and maintainability.
• Mentor early-career engineers, matching work with learning opportunities.

Job description

Speechify is seeking a Team Lead for Android to own core product work, write and review code, and guide a distributed team. You’ll partner across Product, Design, and Engineering to deliver features with fast iteration and robust quality.

The role emphasizes hands-on coding, delivering scalable architecture, and coaching junior engineers in a fast-paced environment. You will drive reliability, lead nightlies for QA, and champion best practices in testing and CI.