Remote Android Core Product Lead - Hands-on & Impactful

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

Job summary

Speechify is seeking a hands-on Team Lead for Android to own core product work and drive how the team collaborates and delivers. You will code, review, and own features, while guiding the team through complex decisions and optimizations for a global, distributed workforce.

You’ll lead architectural decisions, ensure robust testing, and ship reliable releases. A strong background in Kotlin and Android ecosystems, plus excellent communication, is essential.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience with hands-on leadership.
• Expertise in Kotlin and Android architecture patterns.
• Experience shipping long-running background tasks or audio apps.
• Strong understanding of testing strategies and test coverage.

Responsibilities

• Own major features end-to-end from design to release.
• Maintain and improve reliability metrics for key features.
• Review pull requests and mentor peers.
• Unblock the team and drive timely decisions.
• Coordinate with Product, Design, and Engineering early in the process.
• Provide nightly builds for QA and manage releases.

Skills

Kotlin

Kotlin Coroutines

Kotlin Flow

MVVM

Clean Architecture

Jetpack Navigation

Dagger 2

JUnit

Android UI

Communication

Tools

Room

Jetpack Compose

Custom Views

Canvas & Paint

Job description

Speechify is seeking a hands-on Team Lead for Android to own core product work and drive how the team collaborates and delivers. You will code, review, and own features, while guiding the team through complex decisions and optimizations for a global, distributed workforce.

You’ll lead architectural decisions, ensure robust testing, and ship reliable releases. A strong background in Kotlin and Android ecosystems, plus excellent communication, is essential.