Remote Android Core Product Lead — Hands-On, End-to-End

Canaan Partners; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Speechify is seeking an Android Team Lead to own core product work for our Android apps and drive how the team works around it. This is a hands-on role with coding, reviews, and owning features end-to-end.

You will mentor engineers, lead release planning, ensure reliable builds, and collaborate across Product, Design, and Engineering to ship high-quality audio/text-to-speech experiences for millions of users.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience, including time leading a team or owning a major surface while staying hands-on.
• Expert Kotlin stack with Coroutines, Flow, Dagger 2, MVVM and Clean Architecture.
• Experience shipping and maintaining background audio or long-running background work.
• Strong testing mindset and experience writing robust tests.
• Proven ability to drive team changes while delivering value.
• Comfort with change management and cross-functional collaboration.
• Track record of building user-driven features that others reuse.
• Ability to describe how your team works with AI agents.
• Excellent communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Own major features end to end, from design through release with design close collaboration.
• Maintain and improve reliability metrics for key features.
• Review pull requests and provide constructive feedback.
• Unblock the team by solving blockers quickly.
• Ensure versions and shared components stay consistent and well-documented.
• Lead process changes with the team to improve how they work.
• Automate nightly builds and release verification for QA.
• Plan work to focus on decisions that require input.
• Collaborate with Product, Design, and Engineering early to align on constraints.
• Mentor early-career engineers and promote learning within the team.

Skills

Kotlin

Kotlin Coroutines

Kotlin Flow

Dagger 2

MVVM

Clean Architecture

Background Services

Android animations

Jetpack Navigation

JUnit tests

Team leadership

Hands-on coding

Communication skills

Product design intuition

AI integration

Tools

Room

Jetpack Compose

Git

Android Studio

CI/CD

Job description

Speechify is seeking an Android Team Lead to own core product work for our Android apps and drive how the team works around it. This is a hands-on role with coding, reviews, and owning features end-to-end.

You will mentor engineers, lead release planning, ensure reliable builds, and collaborate across Product, Design, and Engineering to ship high-quality audio/text-to-speech experiences for millions of users.