Senior Android Core Product Lead (Remote)

Canaan Partners; United States; Remote; USD 30,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Speechify, a distributed company, seeks a senior Android lead to own core product work across Kotlin, MVVM, and clean architecture. You will ship features end‑to‑end, review code, drive reliability metrics, and mentor junior engineers in a fast-paced, remote environment.

The role emphasizes hands-on coding, cross‑functional collaboration with Product and Design, and a track record of shipping long-running background features. Internationally distributed teams collaborate asynchronously.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience, including leadership or ownership of a major surface while staying hands-on.
• Strong Kotlin expertise and modern Android architecture knowledge.
• Experience shipping and maintaining long-running background work on mobile apps.
• Proven ability to introduce reusable practices and drive team adoption.
• Excellent communication and collaboration across Product, Design, and Engineering.

Responsibilities

• Own major features end to end from concept to release, in coordination with design.
• Maintain reliability metrics and review pull requests with constructive feedback.
• Unblock team bottlenecks and ensure consistent delivery across sprints.
• Lead planning, estimates, and cross-functional discussions to align on scope.
• Ensure automated checks and nightly builds prove quality before QA.

Skills

Kotlin

Kotlin Coroutines

Kotlin Flow

Dagger 2

MVVM

Clean Architecture

Android Animations

Jetpack Navigation

JUnit

Android Background Services

AI integration

Communication skills

Tools

Room

Jetpack Compose

Android Studio

Canvas/Custom Views

Job description

Speechify, a distributed company, seeks a senior Android lead to own core product work across Kotlin, MVVM, and clean architecture. You will ship features end‑to‑end, review code, drive reliability metrics, and mentor junior engineers in a fast-paced, remote environment.

The role emphasizes hands-on coding, cross‑functional collaboration with Product and Design, and a track record of shipping long-running background features. Internationally distributed teams collaborate asynchronously.