Speechify
Team Lead, Android Core Product - Chennai, India
Remote. Posted a month ago
The role
This Team Lead will own core product work for the Android app. You will write code, review code, and own features while managing team workflows and decision-making.
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 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 necessary decisions
- Participate in discussions across Product, Design, and Engineering
- Handle critical issues, feature releases, and 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
- Tell more about yourself and why you are interested in the role
About the company
Speechify makes sure that reading is never a barrier to learning. The company works in a 100% distributed setting with nearly 200 people around the globe.