Remote Android Core Product Lead

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

Job summary

Speechify seeks an experienced Android Team Lead to own core product work and raise how the team operates. You will write code, review PRs, and own features end-to-end while ensuring quality and reliability.

This is a hands-on leadership role with strong emphasis on shipping robust Android experiences. You will collaborate across Product, Design, and Engineering, guiding the team toward scalable, testable, and maintainable code, including AI agent integration and UI/UX enhancements.

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 tests and how to write them, including what can't be covered by them.
• Track record of building things the rest of your team actually used.

Responsibilities

• Own major features end to end, collaborating with design to go from decision to release.
• Maintain and improve reliability metrics for key features.
• Review pull requests and give constructive feedback.
• Unblock the team when blockers arise and ensure efficient progress.
• Lead changes in how the team works and push for automation to reduce manual steps.
• Plan sprints to focus on decisions and unclear areas.
• Work cross-functionally with Product, Design, and Engineering.
• Handle critical issues and provide nightly builds for QA.

Skills

Kotlin

Kotlin Coroutines

Kotlin Flow

Dagger 2

MVVM

Jetpack Navigation

JUnit

Android UI/UX

Android Animations

Tools

Kotlin

Dagger 2

Room

Jetpack Compose

JUnit

Android Studio

Job description

Speechify seeks an experienced Android Team Lead to own core product work and raise how the team operates. You will write code, review PRs, and own features end-to-end while ensuring quality and reliability.

This is a hands-on leadership role with strong emphasis on shipping robust Android experiences. You will collaborate across Product, Design, and Engineering, guiding the team toward scalable, testable, and maintainable code, including AI agent integration and UI/UX enhancements.