Remote Android Core Product Lead

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

Job summary

Speechify is seeking a Senior Android Team Lead to own core product features end‑to‑end in a fully remote, distributed team. You will code, review, and own features, while guiding the team through complex decisions and ensuring rapid, reliable releases.

You’ll mentor junior engineers and push the Android UI/UX scope beyond the spec, collaborating with Product, Design, and QA. Ideal candidates bring 5+ years in software engineering with hands‑on leadership, a deep Kotlin/Android stack, and a

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 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
• Comfort with the unpopular half of the job: asking people to change how they work, and living with the friction that follows
• A view on which changes need heavy review and which don't, argued from what the system does
• A track record of building things the rest of your team actually used, not only things that made you faster
• The ability to describe how your team works with AI agents, not only how you do personally
• Product design intuition, user empathy, and the drive to push Android UI/UX further than the spec asks for
• Self‑drive to improve the app and codebase beyond what's outlined in the spec
• Excellent communication skills

Responsibilities

• Own major features end to end, from design to release, in close collaboration with the design team
• Maintain and improve reliability metrics for key features
• Review pull requests and provide constructive feedback
• Unblock the team when blockers arise and guide critical decisions
• Drive changes so the team uses the best version of shared components
• Keep code and assets well‑organized and maintainable
• Lead weekly planning to focus on decisions still needed
• Balance review workload and ensure consistent sign‑offs
• Participate in cross‑functional discussions early to align constraints
• Handle critical issues and deliver nightly builds for QA
• Mentor early‑career engineers and create learning opportunities

Skills

Team leadership

Hands-on coding

Android Kotlin

Kotlin Coroutines

Kotlin Flow

Dagger 2

MVVM

Clean Architecture

JUnit

Android UI/UX

Tools

Android Studio

Job description

Speechify is seeking a Senior Android Team Lead to own core product features end‑to‑end in a fully remote, distributed team. You will code, review, and own features, while guiding the team through complex decisions and ensuring rapid, reliable releases.

You’ll mentor junior engineers and push the Android UI/UX scope beyond the spec, collaborating with Product, Design, and QA. Ideal candidates bring 5+ years in software engineering with hands‑on leadership, a deep Kotlin/Android stack, and a