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