Team Lead, Android Core Product

• Own major features end to end with the design team, from decision through release
• Own, maintain, and improve reliability metrics for key features
• Write code, review pull requests, and provide constructive feedback
• Unblock engineers and investigate issues directly
• 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 improving underlying systems
• Shift verification left through increased automated checks
• Run planning and focus team attention on unresolved 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 opportunities
• Work hands-on as a Team Lead for 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
• Experience introducing practices or systems that remain adopted by a team
• Comfort asking people to change how they work and managing resulting friction
• Ability to determine which changes need heavy review and which do not
• Track record of building things used by the wider team
• Ability to describe how the team works with AI agents
• Product design intuition, user empathy, and drive to improve Android UI/UX
• 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
• Bonus: Building, maintaining, or contributing to open source Android projects
• Bonus: Experience with iOS, Web, or NodeJS

• Bonus
• Stock depending on experience
• 100% distributed setting
• Remote work
• Diverse and inclusive workplace