Remote Lead Android Core Product Engineer

Canaan Partners; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Speechify is seeking a hands-on Android Team Lead to own core product work, write and review code, and drive features end-to-end in a fully distributed environment. You’ll mentor peers, ensure reliable releases, and shape the Android roadmap.

You’ll collaborate across Product, Design, and Engineering, ship fast, and keep a focus on user-centric Android UI/UX improvements while maintaining high code quality.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience with team leadership
• Proven experience shipping Android features end-to-end
• Strong testing mindset and CI/CD familiarity
• Ability to describe how your team works with AI agents
• Comfort with challenging the status quo and driving process improvements

Responsibilities

• Own major features end to end, from design through release
• Maintain and improve reliability metrics for key features
• Review pull requests and provide constructive feedback
• Unblock the team when blockers arise
• Lead planning and prioritization for the Android roadmap
• Ensure code is maintainable, well-tested, and easy to hand off

Skills

Kotlin

Kotlin Coroutines

Kotlin Flow

Dagger 2

MVVM

Clean Architecture

Background Services

Music Player Service

Android Animations

Jetpack Navigation

JUnit

Android Studio

Git

Jetpack Compose

Room

Tools

Android Studio

Git

Room

Jetpack Compose

Job description

Speechify is seeking a hands-on Android Team Lead to own core product work, write and review code, and drive features end-to-end in a fully distributed environment. You’ll mentor peers, ensure reliable releases, and shape the Android roadmap.

You’ll collaborate across Product, Design, and Engineering, ship fast, and keep a focus on user-centric Android UI/UX improvements while maintaining high code quality.