Lead Android Core Product (Remote)

Speechify; Santa Monica (CA); Remote; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus

Stock

Job summary

Speechify seeks a Team Lead for Android Core Product in Santa Monica, CA, with remote options in the United States. You will own major features end to end, write and review code, and guide a hands-on team to deliver reliable releases.

You will mentor engineers, optimize performance, and collaborate with Product and Design to push Android UI/UX beyond the spec. This role blends coding with leadership and requires strong communication and delivery discipline.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience, including time leading a team or owning a major surface while staying hands-on.
• Experience shipping and maintaining background audio or other long-running background work.
• Strong focus on testing and quality, and pragmatic approach to testing limitations.
• Proven ability to drive changes with cross-functional teams and manage release planning.

Responsibilities

• Own major features end to end, working closely with design from decision through release.
• Maintain and improve reliability metrics for key features.
• Review pull requests and provide constructive feedback.
• Unblock the team and ensure focused work on decisions.
• Coordinate code ownership and versioning to avoid duplicate efforts.
• Keep shared components maintainable and well-documented for future handoffs.
• Drive process improvements and evolving team practices.
• Ensure automated checks and nightly QA builds are reliable.
• Plan and size work for upcoming sprints and releases.
• Guide discussions with Product, Design, and Engineering early on.
• Handle critical issues, own feature releases, and support nightly builds for QA.
• Mentor early-career engineers and provide learning opportunities.

Skills

Kotlin

Coroutines

Flow

Dagger 2

MVVM

Clean Architecture

Background Services

Music Player

Android Animations

Jetpack Navigation

JUnit

Team Leadership

Job description

Speechify seeks a Team Lead for Android Core Product in Santa Monica, CA, with remote options in the United States. You will own major features end to end, write and review code, and guide a hands-on team to deliver reliable releases.

You will mentor engineers, optimize performance, and collaborate with Product and Design to push Android UI/UX beyond the spec. This role blends coding with leadership and requires strong communication and delivery discipline.