Remote Android Core Product Lead - End-to-End Ownership

Canaan Partners; United States; Remote; USD 140.000 - 200.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Speechify in the United States is seeking an experienced Android Team Lead to own core product work, write code, review code, and guide features from concept to release. You will ensure reliability, perform thoughtful PR feedback, and unblock the team when needed.

The role emphasizes hands-on development, leadership by example, and a culture of fast, effective delivery. A strong focus on testability, architecture, and collaboration with Product & Design is essential.

Qualifikationen

• 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
• 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

Aufgaben

• 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 constructive feedback
• Unblock the team: notice when someone has been stuck on the same thing
• Make sure reusable components stay maintained and consolidated
• Call it when the team is ready to change how it works
• Reduce manual intervention to ensure correct releases
• Grow verification to automated checks before QA
• Plan effectively so attention focuses on undecided work
• Coordinate with Product, Design, and Engineering early
• Handle critical issues, own feature releases, and provide nightly builds for QA
• Support junior engineers to learn and grow

Kenntnisse

Kotlin

Android

Team leadership

MVVM

Testing

AI integration

Communication

Product design intuition

Tools

Kotlin

Dagger 2

Jetpack Compose

JUnit

Room

Jetpack Navigation

Jobbeschreibung

Speechify in the United States is seeking an experienced Android Team Lead to own core product work, write code, review code, and guide features from concept to release. You will ensure reliability, perform thoughtful PR feedback, and unblock the team when needed.

The role emphasizes hands-on development, leadership by example, and a culture of fast, effective delivery. A strong focus on testability, architecture, and collaboration with Product & Design is essential.