Remote Android Core Product Lead (Hands-On)

Canaan Partners; United States; A distancia; USD 140.000 - 200.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Open source contributions

Cross-platform experience (iOS, Web, N

Descripción de la vacante

Speechify is seeking a hands-on Android Team Lead to own core product work and elevate how the team collaborates. You will write code, review it, and drive end-to-end features for our Android stack across Kotlin, MVVM, and Jetpack Compose.

The role demands strong communication, deep Kotlin expertise, and a track record of shipping long-running background work and robust tests. This is a distributed, remote-first team with a focus on delivering high-quality audio experiences.

Formación

• 5+ years of software engineering experience, including time leading a team or owning a major surface while staying hands-on.
• Strong Kotlin expertise across Coroutines, Flow, Dagger 2, MVVM, Clean Architecture, and background services.
• 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.
• Some 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.

Responsabilidades

• Own major features end to end, from design to release, in collaboration with design.
• Maintain and improve reliability metrics for key features.
• Review pull requests with constructive feedback.
• Unblock the team when work stalls and ensure alignment.
• Ensure consistent versions across team and consolidate duplicates.
• Keep shared code robust, tested, and maintainable.
• Lead change initiatives when the team is ready, not by waiting.
• Reduce manual steps to achieve a correct release.
• Address recurring problems by changing underlying setups.
• Shift verification left with automated checks before QA.
• Lead planning to focus attention on undecided work.
• Assess how much review is needed and where sign-off is universal.
• Engage in cross-functional discussions early with Product, Design, and Engineering.
• Handle critical issues, own feature releases, and provide nightly QA builds.
• Mentor junior engineers and create learning opportunities.

Conocimientos

Kotlin

Kotlin Coroutines

Kotlin Flow

Dagger 2

MVVM

Clean Architecture

Background Services

Android Animations

Jetpack Navigation

JUnit tests

Herramientas

Kotlin

Kotlin Coroutines

Kotlin Flow

Jetpack Navigation

Dagger 2

Room

Custom Views

Jetpack Compose

JUnit

Descripción del empleo

Speechify is seeking a hands-on Android Team Lead to own core product work and elevate how the team collaborates. You will write code, review it, and drive end-to-end features for our Android stack across Kotlin, MVVM, and Jetpack Compose.

The role demands strong communication, deep Kotlin expertise, and a track record of shipping long-running background work and robust tests. This is a distributed, remote-first team with a focus on delivering high-quality audio experiences.