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, collaborating closely with the Design team.

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

• Review pull requests and offer constructive feedback.

• Assist engineers by investigating and resolving technical challenges.

• Standardize reusable solutions and merge duplicate implementations.

• Ensure shared components are tested, well-documented, maintained, and consolidated.

• Drive enhancements to team processes and engineering methodologies.

• Minimize the need for manual intervention for successful releases.

• Tackle recurring issues by modifying underlying systems.

• Expand automated verification processes and shift testing left.

• Facilitate planning and guide the team’s focus toward work that requires decision-making.

• Establish review criteria and sign-off procedures.

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

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

• Mentor early-career engineers by providing appropriate learning opportunities.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 5 years of experience in software engineering, including leadership of a team or ownership of a significant surface 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 long-running background processes.

• Understanding the importance of testing and how to effectively approach writing tests, including limitations.

• A significant contribution to a team that remained effective after you stepped back, along with a candid assessment of the effort involved.

• Some experience in encouraging team members to alter their working methods and managing the resulting friction.

• Insight into which changes necessitate extensive review and which do not, based on the system’s functionality.

• A proven record of developing solutions that your team actively utilized, not just those that increased your own efficiency.

• Capability to articulate how your team collaborates with AI agents, not just your personal methods.

• A strong sense of product design intuition, user empathy, and a commitment to advancing Android UI/UX beyond the specifications.

• Self-motivation to enhance the app and codebase beyond what is specified.

• Exceptional communication skills.

• Submission of portfolio and LinkedIn links with the application.

🏝️ Benefits

• Fully remote work environment.

• Speechify operates without a physical office.

• A diverse and inclusive workplace culture.

• Multiple technical interviews and an assessment on an actual codebase.

• An interview process designed to be completed within one week.