Team Lead, Android Core Product
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Team Lead building Speechify’s Android text-to-speech core product. Owning features, reliability, releases, architecture, and hands-on engineering leadership.
Responsibilities:
- 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 developmental feedback
- Unblock team members by investigating technical blockers
- Standardize successful implementations for team-wide use
- Maintain tested, clear, and consolidated shared components
- Drive changes to team processes
- Reduce manual intervention required for correct releases
- Address recurring problems by changing underlying systems
- Expand automated verification and shift testing earlier in the development process
- Run planning and prioritize work requiring decisions
- Define review requirements and approval ownership
- 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-oriented work and development time
Requirements:
- 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
- Several technical interviews plus an assessment on a real codebase
- Portfolio and LinkedIn links
Benefits:
- Bonus
- Stock
- Diverse and inclusive workplace













