Remote Android Team Lead: Kotlin & Release Owner

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

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

Bonus

Job summary

Speechify is seeking an experienced Team Lead for its remote Android-focused products. You will own major features end to end, write code, review peers, and guide the team’s technical direction.

You’ll stay hands-on with Kotlin, Android development, and modular architectures while mentoring others, improving release quality, and coordinating with Product, Design, and QA. This role offers competitive compensation and stock options.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience, including time leading a team or owning a major surface while staying hands-on.
• Strong Kotlin knowledge and Android development experience.
• Experience shipping and maintaining background audio or other long-running background work.
• Understanding of tests and how to approach writing them.
• Something you introduced to a team that stuck after you stopped pushing it.
• Comfort with the unpopular half of the job: asking people to change how they work.

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 provide constructive feedback.
• Unblock the team when blockers occur and drive decisions.
• Lead planning and ensure smart trade-offs across Product, Design, and Engineering.
• Support nightly builds for QA and improve release processes.

Skills

Leadership experience

Kotlin

Android development

Jetpack Navigation

JUnit tests

Background services

Tools

Dagger 2

MVVM

Clean Architecture

Jetpack Compose

Room

Kotlin Coroutines

Kotlin Flow

Job description

Speechify is seeking an experienced Team Lead for its remote Android-focused products. You will own major features end to end, write code, review peers, and guide the team’s technical direction.

You’ll stay hands-on with Kotlin, Android development, and modular architectures while mentoring others, improving release quality, and coordinating with Product, Design, and QA. This role offers competitive compensation and stock options.