Remote Android Core Product Lead - Hands-On

Canaan Partners; United States; Remote; USD 36,000 - 60,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus

Stock options

Job summary

Speechify seeks an experienced Android Team Lead to own core product features end to end in a fully remote, globally distributed team. You will write and review code, shape the Android UI/UX beyond the spec, and drive reliable releases.

You will mentor engineers, improve testing, and coordinate with Product, Design, and Engineering to deliver impactful features with speed and quality.

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 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.

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 constructive feedback.
• Unblock the team and ensure efficient progress.
• Mentor junior engineers and ensure work is adopted by the team.

Skills

5+ years experience

Team leadership

Hands-on coding

Excellent communication

Product design intuition

Tools

Kotlin

Kotlin Coroutines

Kotlin Flow

Dagger 2

MVVM

Clean Architecture

Jetpack Navigation

JUnit

Room

Jetpack Compose

Job description

Speechify seeks an experienced Android Team Lead to own core product features end to end in a fully remote, globally distributed team. You will write and review code, shape the Android UI/UX beyond the spec, and drive reliable releases.

You will mentor engineers, improve testing, and coordinate with Product, Design, and Engineering to deliver impactful features with speed and quality.