Remote Lead Android Core Product Engineer

Canaan Partners; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Speechify is seeking a Team Lead for Android to own features end-to-end, write and review code, and guide a distributed engineering team.

You will maintain reliability metrics, run planning, and ensure nightly builds for QA, while mentoring junior engineers and collaborating with Product and Design.

This is a hands-on remote role focused on Kotlin, Jetpack, and scalable mobile architecture in a fast-growing reading tech company.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience with hands-on leadership
• Strong Kotlin expertise and Android platform knowledge
• Experience shipping and maintaining background audio or long-running tasks
• Proven ability to design scalable Android architectures
• Excellent communication and collaboration with Product & Design

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 and align versions across components
• Drive changes to reduce manual intervention and speed up release cycles
• Plan and coordinate work to focus on decisions and risk areas

Skills

Kotlin

Kotlin Coroutines

Kotlin Flow

MVVM

Clean Architecture

Jetpack Navigation

JUnit

Android UI

Background Services

Team Leadership

Code Review

Communication

Tools

Dagger 2

Room

Jetpack Compose

Job description

Speechify is seeking a Team Lead for Android to own features end-to-end, write and review code, and guide a distributed engineering team.

You will maintain reliability metrics, run planning, and ensure nightly builds for QA, while mentoring junior engineers and collaborating with Product and Design.

This is a hands-on remote role focused on Kotlin, Jetpack, and scalable mobile architecture in a fast-growing reading tech company.