Remote Android Core Product Lead (Hands-On)

Speechify; United States; Remote; USD 30,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Speechify is seeking a Team Lead for its fully remote, globally distributed team. You will own core Android features, write code, review PRs, and drive releases end-to-end while mentoring engineers.

Strong Kotlin, Android, and CI/CD experience are essential, along with outstanding communication and leadership skills. You will help shape architecture, improve reliability, and collaborate with Product, Design, and Engineering to deliver high-quality audio/text-to-speech experiences for millions of

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience with hands-on leadership.
• Proven ability to own major features end to end in a real product.
• Experience shipping and maintaining long-running background work.
• Strong testing mindset and ability to drive quality with CI/CD.
• Open to influencing team processes and encouraging best practices.

Responsibilities

• Own major features end to end, from design to release.
• Review PRs and provide constructive feedback.
• Maintain reliability metrics for key features.
• Unblock the team and drive delivery.
• Collaborate across Product, Design, and Engineering.
• Lead planning and ensure efficient use of team time.
• Mentor engineers and promote learning on the job.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Mentoring

Open source contributions

Tools

Kotlin

Kotlin Coroutines

Kotlin Flow

Dagger 2

MVVM

Clean Architecture

Background Services

Music Player Service

Android animations

Jetpack Navigation

JUnit

Room

Custom Views

Canvas & Paint

Jetpack Compose

Job description

Speechify is seeking a Team Lead for its fully remote, globally distributed team. You will own core Android features, write code, review PRs, and drive releases end-to-end while mentoring engineers.

Strong Kotlin, Android, and CI/CD experience are essential, along with outstanding communication and leadership skills. You will help shape architecture, improve reliability, and collaborate with Product, Design, and Engineering to deliver high-quality audio/text-to-speech experiences for millions of