Remote Android Core Product Lead

Canaan Partners; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Open source Android contributions

Exposure to iOS, Web, NodeJS

Job summary

Speechify, a fully distributed company, is seeking an experienced Team Lead for Android who will own core product work and drive how the team collaborates across design and engineering.

You will code, review, and ship features, ensure reliability, mentor engineers, and coordinate with Product to push Android UI/UX beyond the specs, while maintaining nightly builds and fast, reliable releases in a remote work setting.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience with leadership exposure.
• Strong Kotlin, Android platform expertise.
• Experience shipping long-running background tasks.
• Understanding the importance of tests and how to approach writing them.
• Something you introduced to a team that stuck after you stopped pushing it.

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 constructive feedback
• Unblock the team when someone is stuck
• Notice when something should become the standard for the team
• Keep shared pieces in working order, with clear handoffs
• Set when the team should change how it works
• Reduce manual intervention to get a correct release out
• Address recurring issues by changing the underlying setup
• Shift verification left with automated checks for nightly QA
• Run planning to focus on remaining decisions
• Determine review scope and sign-off requirements
• Participate in cross-functional discussions early
• Handle critical issues, releases, and nightly QA builds
• Mentor early-career engineers to learn from the work

Skills

Kotlin

Android development

Team leadership

Code reviews

Testing and QA

AI/ML integration

Tools

Jetpack Compose

Dagger 2

Room

JUnit

Jetpack Navigation

Job description

Speechify, a fully distributed company, is seeking an experienced Team Lead for Android who will own core product work and drive how the team collaborates across design and engineering.

You will code, review, and ship features, ensure reliability, mentor engineers, and coordinate with Product to push Android UI/UX beyond the specs, while maintaining nightly builds and fast, reliable releases in a remote work setting.