Team Lead, Android Core Product - Basel, Switzerland

Remote. Posted a month ago

The role

You will own core product work for the Android app and lead the team. This is a hands-on role involving writing code, reviewing code, and owning features.

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
Consolidate shared pieces and ensure they are tested and clear
Reduce manual intervention for releases
Shift verification left by growing automated checks
Run planning to focus team attention on work needing decisions
Participate in discussions across Product, Design, and Engineering
Handle critical issues, feature releases, and provide nightly builds

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
Comfort with asking people to change how they work
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. Nearly 200 people work in a 100% distributed setting with no office.