Remote Lead Android Core Product Engineer

Canaan Partners; United States; Remote; USD 130,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Speechify is seeking an experienced Android Team Lead to own core product features end-to-end in a remote, distributed environment. You’ll write code, review it, and own the features you ship, while guiding a team to deliver reliable, high-quality Android experiences across Kotlin, MVVM, and Jetpack components.

As a hands-on leader, you’ll unblock teammates, drive architecture improvements, and ensure automated checks are in place.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering with hands-on team leadership
• Proven Kotlin Android development and architecture
• Experience shipping long-running background work
• Strong focus on tests and maintainability
• Track record of delivering usable features to teams

Responsibilities

• Own major features end to end with design team and release
• Maintain and improve reliability metrics for key features
• Review pull requests and provide constructive feedback
• Unblock the team when blockers arise
• Drive version consolidation and standardization across components
• Keep shared pieces maintainable and well-documented
• Lead changes in how the team works and processes
• Reduce manual release steps and automate where possible
• Address recurring problems by changing underlying setups
• Shift verification left for automated checks before QA
• Plan sprints to focus on decisions and progress
• Assess review effort and ensure consistent sign-off
• Participate in cross-functional discussions early with product/design/engineering
• Handle critical issues and nightly builds for QA
• Mentor junior engineers to grow their skill set

Skills

Team leadership

Kotlin

Kotlin Coroutines

Kotlin Flow

Dagger 2

MVVM

Clean Architecture

Android UI

JUnit tests

Background services

Jetpack Navigation

Code reviews

Tools

Room

Custom Views

Jetpack Compose

JUnit

Job description

Speechify is seeking an experienced Android Team Lead to own core product features end-to-end in a remote, distributed environment. You’ll write code, review it, and own the features you ship, while guiding a team to deliver reliable, high-quality Android experiences across Kotlin, MVVM, and Jetpack components.

As a hands-on leader, you’ll unblock teammates, drive architecture improvements, and ensure automated checks are in place.