Team Lead, Android Core Product

• Own major Android features end to end, working closely with the design team from decision through release
• Own, maintain, and improve reliability metrics for key features
• Write code, review pull requests, and provide instructive feedback
• Unblock engineers by investigating and resolving technical issues
• Identify reusable team solutions and consolidate duplicated implementations
• Keep shared components tested, clear, and maintainable
• Lead changes to team processes and working practices
• Reduce manual intervention required for correct releases
• Improve underlying systems when recurring problems arise
• Shift verification left by expanding automated checks before QA
• Run planning focused on work requiring decisions
• Define appropriate review levels and sign-off requirements
• 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
• Work hands-on on Speechify's Android text-to-speech app

• 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 resulting friction
• A view on which changes need heavy review and which don't, argued from what the system does
• Track record of building things the rest of your team actually used
• Ability to describe how your team works with AI agents
• 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 the specification
• Excellent communication skills
• Several technical interviews plus an assessment on a real codebase
• Portfolio and LinkedIn links requested with application

• Bonus
• Stock
• Diverse and inclusive workplace
• Interview process aimed to be completed within 1 week