Remote Android Core Product Lead - Hands-On Builder

Canaan Partners; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Speechify is seeking a Team Lead for Android to own core product work and raise team performance. This is a hands-on role where you will write code, review code, and own features end to end—driving decisions and ensuring quality releases.

We are a distributed team; you’ll collaborate across Product, Design, and Engineering to deliver impactful Android experiences, while mentoring engineers and shaping the team’s approach to testing and automation.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering, with team leadership and hands-on work.
• Strong Kotlin, Coroutines, Flow, MVVM, Clean Architecture experience.
• Experience shipping and maintaining background audio or long-running work.
• Emphasis on tests and testing approach.
• Experience pushing changes that stick in team processes.
• Comfort with change management and friction.
• Ability to describe AI agent collaboration in team workflows.
• Strong Android UI/UX intuition.
• Self-drive to improve app and codebase beyond spec.
• Excellent communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Own major features end to end, from design to release
• Maintain and improve reliability metrics for key features
• Review pull requests and provide constructive feedback
• Unblock the team when blockers occur
• Coordinate when a change should be adopted by the team
• Keep shared components clean and consolidated
• Lead changes in team processes when ready
• Automate release verification and reduce manual steps
• Address recurring problems by changing underlying setup
• Shift left testing to catch issues earlier
• Lead planning to focus on decisions needed
• Assess review workload and sign-off requirements
• Participate in cross-functional discussions early
• Handle critical issues and nightly builds for QA
• Mentor junior engineers and provide learning opportunities

Skills

Team leadership

Kotlin

Kotlin Coroutines

Kotlin Flow

Dagger 2

MVVM

Clean Architecture

Background services

Android UI/UX design

JUnit tests

Communication skills

Tools

Jetpack Navigation

Room

Jetpack Compose

Dagger 2

Job description

Speechify is seeking a Team Lead for Android to own core product work and raise team performance. This is a hands-on role where you will write code, review code, and own features end to end—driving decisions and ensuring quality releases.

We are a distributed team; you’ll collaborate across Product, Design, and Engineering to deliver impactful Android experiences, while mentoring engineers and shaping the team’s approach to testing and automation.