Remote Android Core Product Lead

Canaan Partners; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Speechify is seeking a senior Android Team Lead to own core product work and improve how the team operates. This hands-on role requires you to write and review code, own features end‑to‑end, and guide others through technical decisions with a focus on delivering reliable releases.

You will drive planning, maintain critical features, and mentor junior engineers while balancing speed with quality in a distributed, remote-first environment.

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.
• Something you introduced to a team that stuck after you stopped pushing it, and an honest account of what it cost to get there.

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 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.

Skills

Kotlin

Android

Team Leadership

Code Review

Testing

Tools

Kotlin Coroutines

Jetpack

Dagger 2

JUnit

MVVM

Job description

Speechify is seeking a senior Android Team Lead to own core product work and improve how the team operates. This hands-on role requires you to write and review code, own features end‑to‑end, and guide others through technical decisions with a focus on delivering reliable releases.

You will drive planning, maintain critical features, and mentor junior engineers while balancing speed with quality in a distributed, remote-first environment.