Lead Android Core Product Engineer (Remote)

Speechify; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Speechify, a distributed software company with no physical office, is seeking a Team Lead for its Android app team. You will own major features end to end, write and review code, and guide the team to deliver reliable, scalable solutions across platforms.

The role emphasizes hands-on coding with leadership responsibilities and fast decision-making in a remote, global environment. You will unblock the team, standardize practices, and drive automation to reduce manual steps in releases, while

Qualifications

• Leadership and strong communication skills are essential.
• Hands-on engineering leadership with code ownership responsibilities.

Responsibilities

• Own major features end to end, working closely with our design team — from the decision through to release.
• 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 consolidate 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..
• 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

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Code review

Technical excellence

Job description

Speechify, a distributed software company with no physical office, is seeking a Team Lead for its Android app team. You will own major features end to end, write and review code, and guide the team to deliver reliable, scalable solutions across platforms.

The role emphasizes hands-on coding with leadership responsibilities and fast decision-making in a remote, global environment. You will unblock the team, standardize practices, and drive automation to reduce manual steps in releases, while