Senior Android Team Lead, Core Product (Remote)

Speechify; Houston, Northern (TX, KY); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Speechify is looking for a Team Lead to own the Android Core Product in a fully remote US-based setup, with the role centered in Houston, TX. You will write and review code, own features end-to-end, and guide a distributed team while remaining hands-on.

You’ll partner with Product, Design, and Engineering to push Android UI/UX and reliability, mentor junior developers, and drive fast, high-quality releases in a distributed environment.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience including team leadership and hands-on work
• Expertise in Kotlin, Coroutines, Flow, Dagger 2, MVVM, Clean Architecture and Android components
• Experience shipping and maintaining background audio or other long-running background work

Responsibilities

• Own major features end to end, from design through release and closely with design
• Review pull requests and provide constructive feedback
• Unblock the team and ensure time is spent on decisions that matter
• Maintain and improve reliability metrics for key features
• Collaborate across Product, Design, and Engineering early to align constraints

Skills

Team leadership

Hands-on software engineering

Tools

Kotlin

Kotlin Coroutines

Kotlin Flow

Dagger 2

MVVM

Clean Architecture

Background Services

Android

Jetpack Navigation

JUnit

Job description

Speechify is looking for a Team Lead to own the Android Core Product in a fully remote US-based setup, with the role centered in Houston, TX. You will write and review code, own features end-to-end, and guide a distributed team while remaining hands-on.

You’ll partner with Product, Design, and Engineering to push Android UI/UX and reliability, mentor junior developers, and drive fast, high-quality releases in a distributed environment.