Team Lead, Android Core Product - Arlington, VA, USA
Speechify · Engineering · Lead · 1mo ago
$140k – $200k
per year
Anyone, anywhere in the world can apply.
The role is 100% remote and open globally, as the company operates in a fully distributed setup with no physical offices and employees worldwide.
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Who can apply
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Anyone, anywhere in the world can apply.
“Today, nearly 200 people around the globe work on Speechify in a 100% distributed setting – Speechify has no office.”
Nearly 200 team members work across the globe in a 100% distributed environment.
- Async-first
- The listing doesn't promise async-first working.
- Contractor / B2B
- No mention of hiring international contractors or invoicing.
- Global stipend
- No home office or equipment budget mentioned.
- Annual retreat
- No company-paid get-togethers mentioned.
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About the role
This is a hands-on Team Lead position split between shipping code and leading team operations. You will directly own major product surfaces and features while simultaneously reducing friction in how the team builds, reviewing pull requests, consolidating duplicate solutions, and shifting automated verification left to ensure reliable, high-quality releases.
What you'll do
- Own major product features end-to-end from decision to release, collaborating closely with design and QA.
- Review pull requests thoroughly, provide educational feedback, and unblock team members encountering blockers.
- Consolidate architecture and identify when team-built components should become shared standards.
- Shift testing and verification left by expanding automated checks and improving release reliability.
- Lead planning sessions to focus engineering effort on areas requiring critical decisions.
- Mentor junior engineers and ensure work across the team promotes growth and continuous learning.
What you bring
- 5+ years of software engineering experience, including time leading a team or major product surface while remaining hands-on.
- Rock solid proficiency in Kotlin, Kotlin Coroutines, Kotlin Flow, Dagger 2, MVVM, Clean Architecture, Background Services, and JUnit tests.
- Demonstrated experience shipping and maintaining background audio or long-running background tasks on Android.
- Proven track record of improving team engineering practices and building tools or patterns adopted by peers.
- Strong product design intuition, user empathy, and excellent communication skills.
About Speechify
Speechify is a leading text-to-speech platform used by over 50 million people to convert text into audio across mobile, desktop, and web. The company operates as a 100% distributed team of roughly 200 people worldwide without physical offices.
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