Remote Lead: Android Core Product Engineer

Canaan Partners; United States; Remote; USD 30,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Open source Android projects

Experience with iOS, Web, or NodeJS

Job summary

Speechify is seeking a Team Lead for Android to own core product work and to shape how the team collaborates around it. This is a hands-on role: you will write and review code, own features, and ensure reliably shipped releases in a fully distributed, remote first environment.

You’ll lead design reviews, coordinate with Product and Design, and mentor engineers while maintaining a sharp focus on tests, performance, and UX polish.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience, including time leading a team or owning a major surface while staying hands-on
• Expertise with Kotlin and Android app development, including modern Android architectures and Jetpack components
• Experience shipping and maintaining background audio or other long-running background work
• Strong focus on tests and testing strategy, with practical experience for automation
• Proven track record of introducing lasting process improvements in teams
• Comfort coordinating changes that require cross-team alignment and reviewer discipline

Responsibilities

• Own major features end to end, collaborating with design from concept to release
• Maintain and improve reliability metrics for key features
• Review pull requests with constructive feedback
• Unblock the team when blockers arise and drive momentum
• Move features toward the version the team will adopt
• Keep shared components maintainable, well tested, and reusable
• Lead discussions across Product, Design, and Engineering early
• Handle critical issues, releases, and nightly QA builds
• Mentor junior engineers and provide learning opportunities

Skills

Kotlin

Android development

MVVM

Dagger 2

Kotlin Coroutines

Kotlin Flow

Jetpack Navigation

JUnit tests

Background services

UI/UX design

Tools

Room

Jetpack Compose

Custom Views

Canvas & Paint

Android Studio

Job description

Speechify is seeking a Team Lead for Android to own core product work and to shape how the team collaborates around it. This is a hands-on role: you will write and review code, own features, and ensure reliably shipped releases in a fully distributed, remote first environment.

You’ll lead design reviews, coordinate with Product and Design, and mentor engineers while maintaining a sharp focus on tests, performance, and UX polish.