Senior Android Core Product Lead (Remote)

Speechify; United States; Remote; USD 30,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Speechify is seeking a Team Lead for Android to own core product work end-to-end and mentor a distributed team. You will write code, review PRs, and drive features from design through release with a focus on reliability and performance for our text-to-speech apps.

Collaborate across Product, Design, and Engineering to shape how AI agents assist the Android platform, and help the team improve processes to ship faster while preserving quality. This is a remote, globally distributed role.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience, including time leading a team or owning a major surface while staying hands-on.
• 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 building things the rest of your team actually used, not only things that made you faster.

Responsibilities

• Own major features end to end, working closely with our design team — from the decision through to release.
• This is real delivery, not oversight.
• Own, maintain, and improve reliability metrics for key features.
• Review pull requests and give the kind of feedback people learn from, not just approval.
• Unblock the team: notice when someone has been stuck on the same thing for two days, and go take a look yourself.
• Notice when something one person built should become the version the team uses, and see that change through.
• Keep the shared pieces in working order — tested, clear enough for someone else to pick up, and consolidated when three versions of the same thing appear.
• Call it when the team is ready to change how it works, rather than waiting for that to happen on its own.
• Reduce how much manual intervention it takes to get a correct release out.
• When the same problem shows up twice, get the underlying setup changed so there isn't a third time.
• Shift verification left: grow what can be checked automatically so the nightly build going to QA is a confirmation rather than the first time anyone finds out.
• Run planning so the team's attention goes to the work that still needs decisions rather than the work that's already clear.
• Work out how much review each area needs, and where a person always signs off regardless.
• Participate in discussions across Product, Design, and Engineering, and bring the team's constraints into those rooms early.
• Handle critical issues, own feature releases, and provide nightly builds for the QA team.
• Make sure the people early in their careers are getting work they can learn from, and the time to learn from it.

Skills

Team leadership

Android development

Kotlin

Kotlin Coroutines

Kotlin Flow

Jetpack Navigation

Dagger 2

MVVM

Clean Architecture

JUnit

Jetpack Compose

Android animations

Communication

Open source contribution

Tools

Kotlin

Kotlin Coroutines

Kotlin Flow

Dagger 2

Room

Jetpack Navigation

Jetpack Compose

JUnit

Job description

Speechify is seeking a Team Lead for Android to own core product work end-to-end and mentor a distributed team. You will write code, review PRs, and drive features from design through release with a focus on reliability and performance for our text-to-speech apps.

Collaborate across Product, Design, and Engineering to shape how AI agents assist the Android platform, and help the team improve processes to ship faster while preserving quality. This is a remote, globally distributed role.