Remote Team Lead - Android Core Product

Speechify; Fort Worth (TX); Remote; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus

Stock options

Job summary

Speechify is seeking a Team Lead for Android Core Product to own features end-to-end, write and review code, and mentor a distributed team. This hands-on role requires shipping high‑quality Android experiences while balancing time for design and QA feedback.

You'll collaborate with Product, Design, and Engineering to deliver reliable releases, improve performance, and reduce manual steps. The position offers remote work while based in the United States, with competitive compensation and stock

Qualifications

• 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 of tests and how to approach writing them, including what can’t be covered by them
• Experience introducing a process or practice that stuck with a team

Responsibilities

• Own major features end to end, from decision through release.
• Own, maintain, and improve reliability metrics for key features
• Review pull requests and provide constructive feedback
• Unblock the team when someone is stuck and ensure efficient collaboration
• Ensure shared components are maintainable and reusable
• Drive changes in how the team works and improve release processes
• Reduce manual intervention to ensure correct releases
• Address recurring problems by changing underlying setup
• Grow automation to verify builds and QA readiness
• Plan work to focus on decisions rather than obvious tasks
• Participate in discussions across Product, Design, and Engineering

Skills

Team leadership

Code reviews

Cross-functional collaboration

Android development

Tools

Kotlin

Kotlin Coroutines

Kotlin Flow

Dagger 2

MVVM

Jetpack Navigation

JUnit tests

Job description

Speechify is seeking a Team Lead for Android Core Product to own features end-to-end, write and review code, and mentor a distributed team. This hands-on role requires shipping high‑quality Android experiences while balancing time for design and QA feedback.

You'll collaborate with Product, Design, and Engineering to deliver reliable releases, improve performance, and reduce manual steps. The position offers remote work while based in the United States, with competitive compensation and stock