Lead Android Core Product — Remote & Hands-On Impact

Canaan Partners; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Speechify, the leading text-to-speech platform, is hiring a Team Lead for Android to own core product work and guide a distributed engineering team. This is a hands-on role requiring you to write and review code, ship features end-to-end, and drive technical quality across the stack.

You’ll collaborate with design and product, mentor engineers, optimize reliability, and balance fast delivery with thoughtful architecture.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience, including team leadership while staying hands-on.
• Strong Kotlin and Android architecture, testing, and delivering robust apps.
• Experience shipping background audio or long-running background work is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Own major features end to end, from design through release.
• Maintain and improve reliability metrics for key features.
• Review pull requests and provide constructive feedback.
• Unblock the team when blockers occur, taking initiative.
• Ensure shared components evolve to the preferred version.
• Plan and prioritize work to maximize impact and velocity.
• Participate in cross-functional discussions early with Product and Design.
• Handle critical issues and deliver nightly builds for QA.
• Mentor junior engineers and foster learning.
• Shift verification left with automation to speed QA.

Skills

Kotlin

Kotlin Coroutines

Kotlin Flow

Dagger 2

MVVM

Clean Architecture

Background Services

Android animations

Jetpack Navigation

JUnit tests

Communication skills

AI-assisted systems design

Tools

Room

Custom Views/Canvas & Paint

Jetpack Compose

Job description

Speechify, the leading text-to-speech platform, is hiring a Team Lead for Android to own core product work and guide a distributed engineering team. This is a hands-on role requiring you to write and review code, ship features end-to-end, and drive technical quality across the stack.

You’ll collaborate with design and product, mentor engineers, optimize reliability, and balance fast delivery with thoughtful architecture.