Lead, Android Core Product

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United Kingdom.

📋 Description

• Take full ownership of significant Android product features from inception to release, collaborating closely with the Design team.

• Maintain and enhance reliability metrics for essential features.

• Write code, review pull requests, and offer constructive technical feedback.

• Assist engineers by identifying and resolving challenging issues.

• Recognize reusable solutions and streamline duplicated implementations.

• Manage shared code that is well-tested, clear, and reusable.

• Advocate for improvements in team processes and workflows.

• Minimize manual intervention necessary for accurate releases.

• Tackle recurring issues by refining the foundational setup.

• Broaden automated verification to ensure nightly QA builds confirm rather than detect issues for the first time.

• Facilitate planning sessions and direct team focus toward tasks requiring decision-making.

• Establish appropriate review levels and sign-off processes.

• Engage in discussions with Product, Design, and Engineering, communicating team constraints proactively.

• Manage critical issues, oversee feature releases, and deliver nightly builds to QA.

• Mentor early-career engineers by providing meaningful projects and dedicated learning time.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 5 years of software engineering experience, including leadership of a team or ownership of a significant project while remaining hands-on.

• Strong proficiency in Kotlin, Kotlin Coroutines, Kotlin Flow, Dagger 2, MVVM, Clean Architecture, Background Services, Music Player Service, Android animations, Jetpack Navigation, and JUnit tests.

• Experience in shipping and maintaining background audio or other prolonged background processes.

• Recognize the significance of tests and understand how to approach writing them, including those aspects that cannot be covered.

• Proven experience in initiating and implementing team practices or changes that have continued post-implementation.

• Comfortable encouraging individuals to alter their workflows and managing any resulting friction.

• Skill in discerning which changes require extensive review and which do not, based on system performance.

• History of developing solutions utilized by the broader team.

• Ability to articulate how the team collaborates with AI agents.

• Intuition for product design, user empathy, and a desire to enhance Android UI/UX beyond outlined specifications.

• Self-motivated to advance the app and codebase beyond the initial requirements.

• Exceptional communication abilities.

• Include links to a portfolio and LinkedIn with your application.

• Experience in open source Android projects, or familiarity with iOS, Web, or NodeJS is a plus.

🏝️ Benefits

• Fully remote work environment; Speechify operates without a physical office.

• A diverse and inclusive workplace culture.

• Technical interview process completed within one week.

• Opportunity to collaborate with a globally distributed team.

• Portfolio and LinkedIn submission encouraged as part of the application process.