Remote Android Core Product Lead

Speechify; United States; Remote; USD 30,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Speechify is seeking a Senior Android Team Lead to own core product work and raise how the team operates while staying hands-on. You will write code, review it, and own features end-to-end—ensuring reliability, maintainability, and timely releases across Android platforms.

The role emphasizes cross-team collaboration and shipping high-impact experiences. You’ll drive planning, review practices, and collaboration with Product and Design to push Android UI/UX beyond the spec.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience, including time leading a team while staying hands-on.
• Expert Kotlin and Android architecture knowledge.
• Experience shipping long-running background tasks and ensuring reliability.
• Strong testing mindset and emphasis on code quality.
• Proven ability to introduce and sustain effective team practices and processes.
• Experience describing how your team works with AI agents is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Own major features end to end, from design to release, collaborating with Design and Product.
• Deliver real value through hands-on implementation, not just oversight.
• Maintain and improve reliability metrics for key features.
• Review pull requests with constructive feedback and timely guidance.
• Unblock the team and ensure progress when blockers arise.
• Ensure shared components stay maintainable, tested, and ready for reuse.
• Lead planning to focus on decisions that still require input.

Skills

Kotlin

Kotlin Coroutines

Kotlin Flow

Dagger 2

MVVM

Clean Architecture

Background Services

Music Player Service

Android animations

Jetpack Navigation

JUnit

Tools

Jetpack Compose

Room

Testing frameworks

CI/CD

Job description

Speechify is seeking a Senior Android Team Lead to own core product work and raise how the team operates while staying hands-on. You will write code, review it, and own features end-to-end—ensuring reliability, maintainability, and timely releases across Android platforms.

The role emphasizes cross-team collaboration and shipping high-impact experiences. You’ll drive planning, review practices, and collaboration with Product and Design to push Android UI/UX beyond the spec.