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 • 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 improving team processes. Capable of leading technical discussions, mentoring early-career engineers, and driving user-centric design improvements.

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KotlinKotlin CoroutinesMVVMClean ArchitectureAndroid UI/UX

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Hard Skills

KotlinKotlin CoroutinesKotlin FlowDagger 2MVVMClean ArchitectureBackground ServicesMusic Player ServiceJUnit TestsAndroid Animations

Soft Skills

Excellent Communication SkillsUser EmpathySelf-Drive

Tools & Technologies

Jetpack NavigationAutomated TestingOpen Source Contributions

Industry Keywords

Software EngineeringFeature OwnershipTeam LeadershipProduct DesignBackground Audio

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 team members by investigating and resolving technical blockers
Standardize successful implementations for team-wide use
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 by expanding automated checks
Run planning so team attention focuses on work requiring decisions
Determine appropriate review levels and required sign-offs
Participate in Product, Design, and Engineering discussions
Handle critical issues, own feature releases, and provide nightly builds for QA
Support early-career engineers with learning opportunities
Write code, review code, and own features hands-on
Complete technical interviews and a real-codebase assessment as part of the interview 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 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
Links to a portfolio and LinkedIn included with application
Bonus: Building, maintaining, or contributing to open source Android projects
Bonus: Experience with iOS, Web, or NodeJS

Benefits

Comp & perks

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