Team Lead, Android Core Product - Amsterdam, Netherlands

The role

You will own core product work and lead an Android team through hands-on coding, code reviews, and feature ownership. You will manage team processes, improve reliability metrics, and ensure technical decisions are made efficiently.

What you will do

• Own major features end to end from decision through to release
• Own, maintain, and improve reliability metrics for key features
• Review pull requests and provide feedback
• Unblock the team when members are stuck
• Consolidate shared code pieces and maintain them
• Reduce manual intervention for releases
• Shift verification left by growing automated checks
• Run planning to focus team attention on necessary decisions
• Participate in discussions across Product, Design, and Engineering
• Handle critical issues and provide nightly builds for QA

Required qualifications

• 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
• Ability to describe how your team works with AI agents
• Product design intuition, user empathy, and the drive to push Android UI/UX further than the spec asks for
• Self-drive to improve the app and codebase beyond what is outlined in the spec
• Excellent communication skills

Nice to have

• Building, maintaining, or contributing to open source Android projects
• Experience with iOS, Web, or NodeJS

Before you apply

• Include links to your portfolio and LinkedIn
• Several technical interviews plus an assessment on a real codebase

About the company

Speechify makes sure that reading is never a barrier to learning. The company operates in a 100% distributed setting with nearly 200 people around the globe.