Remote Android Core Product Lead

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

Job summary

Speechify is seeking a hands-on Team Lead for its Android product to own core features from design to release, write and review code, and guide a distributed team to deliver high-quality releases. The role emphasizes strong leadership, collaboration, and measurable reliability improvements.

You’ll balance delivering impactful features with mentoring teammates, strengthening processes, and driving efficiency across Android platforms in a remote, globally distributed setting.

Qualifications

• Experience leading features end-to-end from design to release.
• Ability to review PRs and provide constructive feedback.
• Strong communication and leadership in a distributed team.

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 consolidate 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..
• 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

Skills

Team Leadership

Code Review

System Reliability

Delivery Ownership

Cross-functional Collaboration

Job description

Speechify is seeking a hands-on Team Lead for its Android product to own core features from design to release, write and review code, and guide a distributed team to deliver high-quality releases. The role emphasizes strong leadership, collaboration, and measurable reliability improvements.

You’ll balance delivering impactful features with mentoring teammates, strengthening processes, and driving efficiency across Android platforms in a remote, globally distributed setting.