Senior Android Core Product Lead (Remote)

Canaan Partners; United States; Remote; USD 30,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

Remote-friendly

Job summary

Speechify is seeking a Team Lead for our Android app to own core product work and guide a distributed engineering team. You will code, review, and own features while ensuring quality and timely releases in a remote, fast-moving environment.

Ideal candidates have extensive Kotlin experience, a track record of shipping long-running background work, and a passion for UI/UX. You will collaborate with design, product, and QA to deliver impactful updates and reusable components.

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.
• Experience shipping and maintaining background audio or other long‑running background work.
• Understanding of the importance of tests and how to approach writing them.
• Something you introduced to a team that stuck after you stopped pushing it, and an honest account of what it cost to get there
• Some comfort with the unpopular half of the job: asking people to change how they work, and living with the friction that follows
• A view on which changes need heavy review and which don't, argued from what the system does
• A track record of building things the rest of your team actually used, not only things that made you faster
• The ability to describe how your team works with AI agents, not only how you do personally
• Product design intuition, user empathy, and the drive to push Android UI/UX further than the spec asks for
• Self‑drive to improve the app and codebase beyond what's outlined in the spec
• Excellent communication skills

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

5+ years experience

Kotlin

Kotlin Coroutines

Kotlin Flow

Dagger 2

MVVM

Clean Architecture

Background Services

Android animations

Jetpack Navigation

JUnit tests

Tools

Room

Jetpack Compose

Custom Views

Canvas & Paint

Job description

Speechify is seeking a Team Lead for our Android app to own core product work and guide a distributed engineering team. You will code, review, and own features while ensuring quality and timely releases in a remote, fast-moving environment.

Ideal candidates have extensive Kotlin experience, a track record of shipping long-running background work, and a passion for UI/UX. You will collaborate with design, product, and QA to deliver impactful updates and reusable components.