Remote Lead — Android Core Product

Canaan Partners; United States; Remote; USD 30,000 - 60,000; Full time

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Job summary

Speechify is seeking a Team Lead for Android to own core product work in a fully remote setting. You will write, review, and own features end-to-end, while guiding the team to ship reliable audio-focused experiences across platforms. Strong Kotlin, MVVM, and Jetpack skills are essential, with emphasis on collaboration and thoughtful design.

You will mentor engineers, drive releases, and help evolve the Android UI/UX beyond the spec, while maintaining high code quality and automated tests.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience with hands-on team leadership.
• Expertise in Kotlin and Android app architecture.
• Experience shipping long-running background tasks and audio apps.

Responsibilities

• Own major features end-to-end from design to release.
• Review PRs and give constructive feedback to peers.
• Unblock the team and drive decisions to avoid duplicate work.
• Maintain reliability metrics for key features.
• Coordinate with Product, Design, and Engineering early in discussions.
• Lead planning and optimize release verification and testing.

Skills

Kotlin

Kotlin Coroutines

Kotlin Flow

Dagger 2

MVVM

Clean Architecture

Background Services

Android Animations

Jetpack Navigation

JUnit tests

UI/UX design

Communication

AI integration (agents)

Tools

Room

Jetpack Compose

Custom Views

Android Studio

Job description

Speechify is seeking a Team Lead for Android to own core product work in a fully remote setting. You will write, review, and own features end-to-end, while guiding the team to ship reliable audio-focused experiences across platforms. Strong Kotlin, MVVM, and Jetpack skills are essential, with emphasis on collaboration and thoughtful design.

You will mentor engineers, drive releases, and help evolve the Android UI/UX beyond the spec, while maintaining high code quality and automated tests.