Team Lead, Android Core Product

Speechify

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

Posted 10/5/2026full-timeRemote • IndiaSeniorWebsite

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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 improving team processes. Capable of leading teams while remaining hands-on, fostering collaboration, and driving the adoption of best practices.

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KotlinKotlin CoroutinesKotlin FlowMVVMClean Architecture

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Hard Skills

Android DevelopmentBackground ServicesMusic Player ServiceJetpack NavigationJUnit TestsAutomated TestingCode ReviewFeature OwnershipReliability MetricsProduct Design

Soft Skills

Excellent CommunicationUser EmpathySelf-DriveTeam LeadershipConstructive Feedback

Tools & Technologies

Dagger 2Android UI/UXOpen Source ContributionsAI Agents

Industry Keywords

Software EngineeringTeam ProcessesFeature ReleasesBackground AudioLong-Running Background Work

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AndroidDaggeriOSJUnitKotlinNode.jsOpen Source

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Own major features end to end, working closely with the design team from decision through release
Own, maintain, and improve reliability metrics for key features
Review pull requests and provide constructive feedback
Unblock engineers by investigating stalled work
Identify reusable team-wide solutions and drive their adoption
Keep shared code tested, clear, maintained, and consolidated
Lead changes to team processes and ways of working
Reduce manual intervention required for correct releases
Address recurring problems by changing underlying systems
Shift verification left and expand automated checks
Run planning so the team's attention focuses on work requiring decisions
Define review requirements and approval ownership
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 meaningful work and learning time
Write code, review code, and own features hands-on
Participate in technical interviews and a real-codebase assessment process

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 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 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
Ability to describe how your team works with AI agents, not only how you do personally
Product design intuition, user empathy, and 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
Bonus: Building, maintaining, or contributing to open source Android projects
Bonus: Experience with iOS, Web, or NodeJS
Portfolio and LinkedIn links requested with application

Benefits

Comp & perks

100% distributed setting
No office
Diverse and inclusive workplace
Several technical interviews plus an assessment on a real codebase
Interview process aimed to be completed within 1 week