Lead Android Core Product Engineer (Remote)

Speechify; United States; Remote; USD 30,000 - 105,000; Full time

Job summary

Speechify is seeking a Team Lead for Android to own core product work, write code, review PRs, and guide features from conception to release. You will work hands-on on Kotlin-based Android apps, ensuring reliability, performance, and quality across the stack in a fully remote, distributed team.

The role emphasizes leadership, strong communication, and a proven track record of delivering impactful Android experiences, with opportunities to mentor engineers and push UI/UX beyond the specs.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience, including time leading a team or owning a major surface while staying hands-on.
• Strong Kotlin, Android architecture, and testing practices; experience with background services or long-running work.
• Experience shipping and maintaining features with high reliability and good test coverage.

Responsibilities

• Own major features end to end, collaborating with design to deliver from decision to release.
• Maintain and improve key reliability metrics for features.
• Review pull requests and provide constructive feedback.
• Unblock the team and ensure efficient delivery of changes.

Skills

Leadership

Android development

Kotlin

Coroutines

Flow

MVVM

Jetpack Compose

JUnit

Code review

Tools

Dagger 2

Room

Android Studio

CI/CD

Android Animations

Job description

Speechify is seeking a Team Lead for Android to own core product work, write code, review PRs, and guide features from conception to release. You will work hands-on on Kotlin-based Android apps, ensuring reliability, performance, and quality across the stack in a fully remote, distributed team.

The role emphasizes leadership, strong communication, and a proven track record of delivering impactful Android experiences, with opportunities to mentor engineers and push UI/UX beyond the specs.