Remote Android Team Lead: Core Product & Delivery

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

Job summary

Speechify is a distributed, zero-offices company delivering text-to-speech products across Android, iOS, Mac, Chrome, and Web. We are seeking a Team Lead to own core Android product work while remaining hands-on—coding, code reviews, and feature ownership.

You’ll ensure reliable releases, guide the team, and help grow engineers through strong mentorship and collaboration. Ideal candidates bring 5+ years of software engineering with leadership experience, deep Kotlin expertise, and a track record

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience, including time leading a team or owning a major surface while staying hands-on.
• Rock solid Kotlin, Kotlin Coroutines, Kotlin Flow, Dagger 2, MVVM, Clean Architecture, Background Services, Music Player Service, Android animations, Jetpack Navigation, and JUnit tests.
• Experience shipping and maintaining background audio or other long-running background work.
• Understanding of the importance of tests and how to approach writing them, including what can't be covered by them.

Responsibilities

• Own major features end to end, working closely with our design team — from the decision through to release.
• Own, maintain, and improve reliability metrics for key features.
• Review pull requests and give feedback that helps others learn and improve.
• Unblock the team when someone is stuck and ensure work moves forward.
• Ensure components stay maintainable, well-documented, and ready for the team to reuse.

Skills

Kotlin

Kotlin Coroutines

Kotlin Flow

Dagger 2

MVVM

Clean Architecture

Background Services

Music Player Service

Android animations

Jetpack Navigation

JUnit

Tools

Room

Jetpack Compose

Custom Views

Canvas & Paint

Android Studio

Job description

Speechify is a distributed, zero-offices company delivering text-to-speech products across Android, iOS, Mac, Chrome, and Web. We are seeking a Team Lead to own core Android product work while remaining hands-on—coding, code reviews, and feature ownership.

You’ll ensure reliable releases, guide the team, and help grow engineers through strong mentorship and collaboration. Ideal candidates bring 5+ years of software engineering with leadership experience, deep Kotlin expertise, and a track record