Team Lead, Android Core Product

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

📋 Description

• Take ownership of significant features from concept to release in collaboration with the design team.

• Manage, maintain, and enhance reliability metrics for essential features.

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

• Assist engineers in overcoming obstacles and investigate prolonged technical challenges.

• Identify reusable solutions within the team and consolidate duplicate implementations.

• Ensure shared components are tested, maintained, clear, and consolidated.

• Propose enhancements to team processes.

• Minimize the need for manual intervention during correct releases.

• Resolve recurring issues by modifying underlying systems.

• Promote early verification by expanding automated testing.

• Conduct planning sessions and focus the team's attention on unresolved decisions.

• Establish appropriate review levels and necessary sign-offs.

• Engage in discussions related to Product, Design, and Engineering, raising team constraints proactively.

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

• Mentor early-career engineers through learning-focused tasks and development opportunities.

⛳️ Requirements

• Minimum of 5 years of software engineering experience, including leadership of a team or ownership of a major surface while remaining hands-on.

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

• Experience in shipping and maintaining background audio or managing long-running background tasks.

• Strong understanding of the value of tests and strategies for writing them, including limitations.

• Evidence of a contribution to a team that persisted after the candidate ceased promoting it, along with a truthful assessment of its implementation cost.

• Comfort in requesting changes in workflow and managing the resulting friction.

• Ability to discern which changes require extensive review and which do not, based on system behavior.

• Proven history of creating solutions that the team actively utilized.

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

• Intuition for product design, user empathy, and a commitment to enhancing Android UI/UX beyond specifications.

• Self-motivation to improve the app and codebase beyond initial specifications.

• Exceptional communication skills.

• Inclusion of portfolio and LinkedIn links with the application.

• Open-source Android experience is a plus.

• Familiarity with iOS, Web, or NodeJS is an added advantage.

🏝️ Benefits

• Fully distributed work environment.

• Remote work; Speechify operates without a physical office.

• Diverse and inclusive workplace culture.

• Multiple technical interviews along with an assessment on a real codebase, with the aim to complete the process within one week.