Team Lead, Android Core Product - Timișoara, Romania

The role

A hands-on Team Lead will own core product work and improve how the team operates. You will write and review code, own features, and manage team processes and reliability metrics.

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 work needing 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
• 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

About the company

Speechify makes sure that reading is never a barrier to learning through text-to-speech products. The company operates in a 100% distributed setting with no office.