Team Lead - Android Core Product (Remote)

Canaan Partners; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Speechify is seeking an experienced Android Team Lead to drive core product work across Kotlin-based Android apps. You’ll write, review code, own features end-to-end, and guide a distributed team while shipping reliable releases.

You’ll mentor engineers, balance shipping with quality, and collaborate with Product and Design to push Android UI/UX beyond the spec while maintaining a focus on testability and performance.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience with team leadership or owning a major surface while remaining hands-on.
• Expert Kotlin, Kotlin Coroutines, Kotlin Flow, Dagger 2, MVVM, Clean Architecture, and Android services.
• Experience shipping long-running background work.
• Strong testing approach and coverage.
• Proven ability to drive changes and mentor teams.

Responsibilities

• Own major Android features end to end with design collaboration and release ownership.
• Maintain reliability metrics and improve performance for key features.
• Review pull requests with constructive feedback and code quality focus.
• Unblock the team and align versions for a unified codebase.
• Lead planning, review effort estimates, and coordinate with Product and Engineering.
• Foster learning for engineers early in their careers and encourage growth.

Skills

Software engineering

Team leadership

Kotlin

Android

Code reviews

Communication

Tools

Kotlin

Dagger 2

MVVM

Jetpack

JUnit

Job description

Speechify is seeking an experienced Android Team Lead to drive core product work across Kotlin-based Android apps. You’ll write, review code, own features end-to-end, and guide a distributed team while shipping reliable releases.

You’ll mentor engineers, balance shipping with quality, and collaborate with Product and Design to push Android UI/UX beyond the spec while maintaining a focus on testability and performance.