Remote Lead, Android Core Product

Speechify; Greensboro (NC); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Speechify is seeking a Team Lead for Android Core Product in Greensboro, NC. This remote-friendly role blends leadership with hands-on coding to own major Android features and guide the team through design, development, and release.

You’ll mentor engineers, improve reliability, and collaborate with Product and Design to deliver a best-in-class Android experience. The ideal candidate ships background audio, leads with a strong testing mindset, and drives changes with a pragmatic, collaborative

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
• Something you introduced to a team that stuck after you stopped pushing it, and an honest account of what it cost to get there
• Some comfort with the unpopular half of the job: asking people to change how they work, and living with the friction that follows
• A view on which changes need heavy review and which don't, argued from what the system does
• A track record of building things the rest of your team actually used, not only items that made you faster
• The ability to describe how your team works with AI agents, not only how you do personally
• Product design intuition, user empathy, and the drive to push Android UI/UX further than the spec asks for
• Self-drive to improve the app and codebase beyond what's outlined in the spec

Responsibilities

• Own major features end to end, working closely with our design team — from the decision through to release. This is real delivery, not oversight
• Own, maintain, and improve reliability metrics for key features
• Review pull requests and give the kind of feedback people learn from, not just approval
• Unblock the team: notice when someone has been stuck on the same thing for two days, and go take a look yourself
• Reduce how much manual intervention it takes to get a correct release out
• Shift verification left: grow what can be checked automatically so the nightly build going to QA is a confirmation rather than the first time anyone finds out

Skills

5+ years experience

Team leadership

Kotlin

Android development

MVVM

Unit testing

Tools

Kotlin Coroutines

Kotlin Flow

Dagger 2

Jetpack Navigation

JUnit

MVVM

Job description

Speechify is seeking a Team Lead for Android Core Product in Greensboro, NC. This remote-friendly role blends leadership with hands-on coding to own major Android features and guide the team through design, development, and release.

You’ll mentor engineers, improve reliability, and collaborate with Product and Design to deliver a best-in-class Android experience. The ideal candidate ships background audio, leads with a strong testing mindset, and drives changes with a pragmatic, collaborative