Team Lead, Android Core Product

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

📋 Description

• Take ownership of significant Android core-product features from inception to release while collaborating with Design.

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

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

• Assist engineers by investigating and resolving complex issues.

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

• Maintain shared components ensuring they are tested, clear, and reusable.

• Enhance team processes and engineering methodologies.

• Minimize manual intervention needed for proper releases.

• Address recurring issues by altering the foundational setup.

• Advance verification by expanding automated checks prior to QA.

• Conduct planning sessions centered on tasks that require decision-making.

• Establish appropriate review levels and sign-off criteria.

• Engage in discussions with Product, Design, and Engineering while communicating team constraints early on.

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

• Mentor early-career engineers with meaningful tasks and learning opportunities.

⛳️ Requirements

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

• Proficient 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 long-duration background tasks.

• Comprehension of the significance of tests and strategies for writing them, including aspects that cannot be tested.

• Proven experience introducing lasting practices or process changes within a team.

• Comfort in requesting changes in work habits and managing resultant friction.

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

• History of building tools and solutions that the team has utilized.

• Capability to explain how the team interacts with AI agents.

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

• Self-motivation to advance the app and codebase beyond set specifications.

• Strong communication abilities.

• Submission of a portfolio and LinkedIn links is requested during the application process.

• Bonus: experience in building, maintaining, or contributing to open-source Android projects.

• Bonus: familiarity with iOS, Web, or NodeJS.

🏝️ Benefits

• Fully remote work environment.

• Speechify operates without a physical office.

• Commitment to a diverse and inclusive workplace.

• Multiple technical interviews along with a real-codebase assessment, aiming for completion within one week.