Remote Android Core Product Lead

Speechify; United States; Remote; USD 30,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

Bonus

Remote work

Job summary

Speechify is a fully remote company seeking an experienced Android Team Lead to own core features end to end, write and review code, and guide the team with practical leadership. You’ll collaborate with Product, Design, and Engineering to deliver features on a tight feedback loop.

You will maintain reliability metrics, unblock the team, and drive automated checks and nightly builds for QA. Strong Kotlin and Android experience are essential, with background audio work a plus.

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.

Responsibilities

• Own major features end to end, working closely with our design team - from the decision through to release.
• This is real delivery, not oversight.
• 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.
• Notice when something one person built should become the version the team uses, and see that change through.
• Keep the shared pieces in working order - tested, clear enough for someone else to pick up, and consolidated when three versions of the same thing appear.
• Call it when the team is ready to change how it works, rather than waiting for that to happen on its own.
• Reduce how much manual intervention it takes to get a correct release out.
• When the same problem shows up twice, get the underlying setup changed so there isn't a third time.
• Shift verification left: grow what can be checked automatically so the nightly build going to QA is a confirmation rather than the first time anyone finds out.
• Run planning so the team's attention goes to the work that still needs decisions rather than the work that's already clear.
• Work out how much review each area needs, and where a person always signs off regardless.
• Participate in discussions across Product, Design, and Engineering, and bring the team's constraints into those rooms early.
• Handle critical issues, own feature releases, and provide nightly builds for the QA team.
• Make sure the people early in their careers are getting work they can learn from, and the time to learn from it.

Skills

Kotlin

Android development

Team leadership

Testing

Open source contributions

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Tools

Kotlin Coroutines

Jetpack Compose

Dagger 2

JUnit

Room

Job description

Speechify is a fully remote company seeking an experienced Android Team Lead to own core features end to end, write and review code, and guide the team with practical leadership. You’ll collaborate with Product, Design, and Engineering to deliver features on a tight feedback loop.

You will maintain reliability metrics, unblock the team, and drive automated checks and nightly builds for QA. Strong Kotlin and Android experience are essential, with background audio work a plus.