Lead Android Core Product - Remote

Speechify; Seattle, Northern (WA, KY); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Speechify is seeking a Team Lead for Android Core Product in Seattle with a strong hands-on background. You will own major Android features end-to-end, review code, and ensure reliability while guiding the team through design, release, and QA processes.

You will mentor engineers, collaborate with Product and Design, and drive improvements in testing, automation, and release cadence to ship high-quality experiences.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience, including time leading a team or owning a major surface while staying hands-on.
• Rock solid Kotlin, Kotlin Coroutines, Kotlin Flow, Dagger 2, MVVM, Clean Architecture, Background Services, Music Player Service, Android animations, Jetpack Navigation, and JUnit tests
• Experience shipping and maintaining background audio or other long-running background work
• Understanding of the importance of tests and how to approach writing them, including what can't be covered by them
• A track record of building things the rest of your team actually used, not only things that made you faster
• The ability to describe how your team works with AI agents, not only how you do personally

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
• Maintain shared pieces in working order — tested and clear for others to pick up
• Call it when the team is ready to change how it works and implement it
• Reduce manual intervention to get a correct release out
• When the same problem shows up twice, change underlying setup so there isn't a third time
• Shift verification left: grow what can be checked automatically for QA nightly builds
• Plan sprints so attention goes to undecided work
• Assess review effort per area and standardize approvals
• Participate in discussions across Product, Design, and Engineering early
• Handle critical issues, own feature releases, and provide nightly builds for QA
• Mentor newer engineers to learn from the work

Skills

Kotlin

Kotlin Coroutines

Kotlin Flow

Dagger 2

MVVM

Clean Architecture

Background Services

Android animations

Jetpack Navigation

JUnit tests

Education

5+ years of software engineering experience

Tools

Open source Android projects

Job description

Speechify is seeking a Team Lead for Android Core Product in Seattle with a strong hands-on background. You will own major Android features end-to-end, review code, and ensure reliability while guiding the team through design, release, and QA processes.

You will mentor engineers, collaborate with Product and Design, and drive improvements in testing, automation, and release cadence to ship high-quality experiences.