Remote Android Core Product Lead — Hands-on & Impactful

Speechify; United States; Remote; USD 30,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Speechify seeks a hands-on Team Lead for Android to own core product work, write and review code, and guide the team in delivering reliable features end-to-end. You will collaborate with design, product, and engineering to plan and ship releases, while mentoring engineers and enforcing quality standards.

The role emphasizes leading with strong communication, shaping the development process, and driving performance improvements across Android, with exposure to iOS/Web, and a distributed global

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering with team leadership experience.
• Experience shipping and maintaining long-running background work (audio/background).
• Proven ability to drive changes that stick in a team.

Responsibilities

• Own major features end to end with design collaboration and release ownership.
• Review PRs and provide constructive feedback to the team.
• Unblock the team and ensure timely delivery of releases.
• Maintain reliable, well-documented code and testing practices.
• Plan workloads and optimize review processes with cross-functional partners.
• Handle critical issues, releases, and nightly QA builds.

Skills

Team leadership

Hands-on Android

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related field

Tools

Kotlin

Kotlin Coroutines

Kotlin Flow

Jetpack Navigation

Dagger 2

Room

Jetpack Compose

JUnit

Job description

Speechify seeks a hands-on Team Lead for Android to own core product work, write and review code, and guide the team in delivering reliable features end-to-end. You will collaborate with design, product, and engineering to plan and ship releases, while mentoring engineers and enforcing quality standards.

The role emphasizes leading with strong communication, shaping the development process, and driving performance improvements across Android, with exposure to iOS/Web, and a distributed global