Remote Android Core Product Lead — Hands-On & Impactful

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

Job summary

Speechify is hiring a remote Team Lead for Android to own core product work and drive the team’s overall coding quality and delivery. You’ll write and review code, own features, and guide the team through technical decisions while shipping reliable, user‑facing experiences.

The role emphasizes hands‑on development, leadership, and collaboration with Product and Design to push Android UI/UX beyond the spec. Strong Kotlin and architecture skills are essential.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience with hands-on team leadership.
• Strong Kotlin and Android architecture skills.
• Experience shipping and maintaining long-running background work.
• Understanding of tests and how to write them.
• Introduced lasting team improvements and cost of change.

Responsibilities

• Own major features end to end with design team collaboration.
• Maintain and improve reliability metrics for key features.
• Review pull requests with constructive feedback.
• Unblock the team and drive timely decisions.
• Ensure maintainable, well-documented code and architectures.

Skills

Kotlin

Kotlin Coroutines

Kotlin Flow

Dagger 2

MVVM

Clean Architecture

Background Services

Android Animations

Jetpack Navigation

JUnit Tests

Communication Skills

AI Agents

Product Design

User Empathy

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Android Studio

Git

Job description

Speechify is hiring a remote Team Lead for Android to own core product work and drive the team’s overall coding quality and delivery. You’ll write and review code, own features, and guide the team through technical decisions while shipping reliable, user‑facing experiences.

The role emphasizes hands‑on development, leadership, and collaboration with Product and Design to push Android UI/UX beyond the spec. Strong Kotlin and architecture skills are essential.