Remote Android Core Product Lead (Hands-On)

Speechify; Albuquerque (NM); Remote; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Speechify is seeking a Team Lead for the Android Core Product in the United States. This is a remote, hands-on leadership role where you will own major Android features from design to release, mentor engineers, and ensure robust, scalable solutions for the Android app ecosystem.

You will collaborate with Product, Design, and Engineering to push UI/UX beyond the spec, ship nightly builds for QA, and drive improvements in testing and automation.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience, including time leading a team or owning a major surface while staying hands-on.
• Proficient in Kotlin and Android app development.
• Experience shipping long-running background work or audio apps.
• Strong testing mindset and approach to writing tests.
• Proven ability to design and implement end-to-end features.

Responsibilities

• Own major features end to end, from design through release.
• Maintain and improve reliability metrics for key features.
• Review pull requests and provide actionable feedback.
• Unblock the team when blockers appear and guide implementation decisions.
• Ensure shared components are maintainable and reusable across the project.
• Plan and drive release readiness and automation to reduce manual steps.

Skills

Kotlin

Coroutines

MVVM

Dagger 2

Android UI/UX

Code review

Tools

JUnit tests

Job description

Speechify is seeking a Team Lead for the Android Core Product in the United States. This is a remote, hands-on leadership role where you will own major Android features from design to release, mentor engineers, and ensure robust, scalable solutions for the Android app ecosystem.

You will collaborate with Product, Design, and Engineering to push UI/UX beyond the spec, ship nightly builds for QA, and drive improvements in testing and automation.