Lead Android Core Product (Remote, Hands-On)

Canaan Partners; United States; Remote; USD 30,000 - 115,000; Full time

Job summary

Speechify is seeking a Team Lead for our Android app to own features end-to-end, write and review code, and guide a hands-on, high-skill team. You’ll improve reliability, review PRs, and unblock the team while maintaining high quality in Kotlin-based systems.

We operate a fully distributed environment with no central office; you’ll collaborate across Product, Design, and Engineering, and drive efficient release cycles with automated checks and nightly builds.

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.
• Understanding of the importance of tests and how to approach writing them, including what can’t be covered by them.
• Something you introduced to a team that stuck after you stopped pushing it, and an honest account of what it cost to get there.
• Some comfort with the unpopular half of the job: asking people to change how they work, and living with the friction that follows.
• 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.
• Product design intuition, user empathy, and the drive to push Android UI/UX further than the spec asks for.

Responsibilities

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

Skills

Kotlin

Kotlin Coroutines

Kotlin Flow

Dagger 2

MVVM

Clean Architecture

Background Services

Music Player

Android Animations

Jetpack Navigation

JUnit

Tools

Jetpack Navigation

Dagger 2

Room

Jetpack Compose

JUnit

Custom Views

Canvas & Paint

Job description

Speechify is seeking a Team Lead for our Android app to own features end-to-end, write and review code, and guide a hands-on, high-skill team. You’ll improve reliability, review PRs, and unblock the team while maintaining high quality in Kotlin-based systems.

We operate a fully distributed environment with no central office; you’ll collaborate across Product, Design, and Engineering, and drive efficient release cycles with automated checks and nightly builds.