Remote Lead, Android Core Product

Canaan Partners; United States; Remote; USD 140.000 - 200.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Speechify is seeking a hands-on Android Team Lead to own core product work for our Android app. You will write and review code, own features end-to-end, and drive reliability and performance.

You’ll lead a distributed team, collaborate with Product and Design, and ship nightly builds for QA. The role emphasizes leadership with hands-on coding, experience in Kotlin and Android architecture, plus a track record of delivering features used by the team.

Qualifikationen

• 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 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.
• 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 things 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
• Excellent communication skills

Aufgaben

• 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 constructive feedback that teaches and improves code quality.
• Unblock the team by spotting blockers early and taking action.
• Encourage the version the team uses and drive the change through.
• Keep shared components well‑structured, tested, and easy to pick up.
• Lead changes in how the team works and when to adopt them.
• Reduce manual steps to achieve a correct release.
• Address recurring problems by changing underlying setup to prevent repeats.
• Shift verification left, enabling automated checks before QA.
• Plan sprints so attention goes to decisions still needed.
• Assess review workloads and identify where consensus is essential.
• Participate in discussions across Product, Design, and Engineering early.
• Handle critical issues, own releases, and provide nightly builds for QA.
• Mentor junior engineers to grow while delivering results

Kenntnisse

Android/Kotlin

Team leadership

Hands-on coding

Kotlin Coroutines

MVVM/Clean Architecture

Tools

Kotlin

Jetpack Compose

Dagger 2

Room

JUnit

Android Studio

Jobbeschreibung

Speechify is seeking a hands-on Android Team Lead to own core product work for our Android app. You will write and review code, own features end-to-end, and drive reliability and performance.

You’ll lead a distributed team, collaborate with Product and Design, and ship nightly builds for QA. The role emphasizes leadership with hands-on coding, experience in Kotlin and Android architecture, plus a track record of delivering features used by the team.