Team Lead, Android Core Product

Speechify

. Own major features end to end with the design team, from decision through release .

Posted 10/5/2026full-timeRemote • California • United StatesSenior💰 $140,000 - $200,000 per yearWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in Kotlin and Android development, with a strong focus on building and maintaining reliable features and systems. Proven ability to lead teams, improve processes, and enhance user experience through effective collaboration and communication.

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KotlinKotlin CoroutinesKotlin FlowDagger 2MVVM

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Hard Skills

Clean ArchitectureBackground ServicesMusic Player ServiceAndroid AnimationsJetpack NavigationJUnit TestsAutomated TestingFeature OwnershipCode ReviewSoftware Engineering

Soft Skills

Excellent Communication SkillsUser EmpathySelf-DriveTeam CollaborationChange Management

Tools & Technologies

AndroidAI AgentsOpen Source ProjectsIOSWebNodeJS

Industry Keywords

Text-To-Speech ProductsProduct DesignUI/UXReliability MetricsFeature Release

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AndroidDaggeriOSJUnitKotlinNode.jsOpen Source

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Own major features end to end with the design team, from decision through release
Own, maintain, and improve reliability metrics for key features
Review pull requests and provide developmental feedback
Unblock engineers by investigating persistent issues
Identify reusable team solutions and drive their adoption
Maintain tested, clear, and consolidated shared components
Lead changes to team processes
Reduce manual intervention required for correct releases
Address recurring problems by changing underlying systems
Shift verification left through increased automated checks
Run planning focused on work requiring decisions
Determine appropriate review levels and sign-off requirements
Participate in Product, Design, and Engineering discussions and raise team constraints early
Handle critical issues, own feature releases, and provide nightly builds for QA
Support early-career engineers with appropriate learning opportunities
Write code, review code, and own features hands-on
Collaborate with a distributed global team building text-to-speech products

Requirements

What you’ll need

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, Background Services, Music Player Service, Android animations, Jetpack Navigation, and JUnit tests
Experience shipping and maintaining background audio or other long-running background work
Understanding of the importance of tests and how to approach writing them, including what can't be covered by them
Something introduced to a team that stuck after the candidate stopped pushing it, with an honest account of its cost
Comfort asking people to change how they work and handling the resulting friction
Ability to determine which changes need heavy review and which do not, based on system behavior
Track record of building things the rest of the team actually used
Ability to describe how the team works with AI agents
Product design intuition, user empathy, and drive to push Android UI/UX beyond the specification
Self-drive to improve the app and codebase beyond the specification
Excellent communication skills
Portfolio and LinkedIn links included with the application
Bonus: Building, maintaining, or contributing to open source Android projects
Bonus: Experience with iOS, Web, or NodeJS

Benefits

Comp & perks

Bonus
Stock
Diverse and inclusive workplace
Several technical interviews plus an assessment on a real codebase, with an aim to complete the process within 1 week