Remote Lead, Android Core Product

Speechify; Memphis, Northern (TN, KY); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Speechify is seeking a Team Lead for the Android Core Product in Memphis, TN. This hands-on leadership role combines coding, feature ownership, and guiding a small, high-skill team to deliver reliable Android experiences across platforms.

You’ll own major features end-to-end, drive release planning, review PRs, reduce manual steps, and mentor engineers while collaborating with Product and Design to push UI/UX beyond the spec.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience, with team leadership or hands-on ownership
• 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 the importance 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
• A view on changes that need heavy review and which don’t, argued from system behavior
• Track record of building things the rest of your team actually used
• Ability to describe how your team works with AI agents
• Product design intuition, user empathy, and drive to push Android UI/UX beyond the spec
• Self‑drive to improve the app and codebase beyond the spec

Responsibilities

• Own major features end to end, working with design from decision through release
• Own, maintain, and improve reliability metrics for key features
• Review pull requests and provide constructive feedback
• Unblock the team when blockers arise and ensure efficient progress
• Lead changes to ensure the version used by the team is the one everyone adopts
• Keep shared components well‑maintained, documented, and consolidating duplicates
• Drive process improvements and shift verification left
• Plan work so attention focuses on remaining decisions
• Balance review workload and when the team signs off
• Collaborate with Product, Design, and Engineering early to align constraints
• Handle critical issues, own feature releases, and provide nightly builds for QA
• Mentor junior engineers to grow while preserving delivery velocity
• Ensure AI agent interactions are reflected in team workflows

Skills

Kotlin

Kotlin Coroutines

Kotlin Flow

Dagger 2

MVVM

Clean Architecture

Background Services

Music Player Service

Android animations

Jetpack Navigation

JUnit tests

Job description

Speechify is seeking a Team Lead for the Android Core Product in Memphis, TN. This hands-on leadership role combines coding, feature ownership, and guiding a small, high-skill team to deliver reliable Android experiences across platforms.

You’ll own major features end-to-end, drive release planning, review PRs, reduce manual steps, and mentor engineers while collaborating with Product and Design to push UI/UX beyond the spec.