Team Lead, Android Core Product - Berkeley, CA, USA
Speechify · Engineering · Lead · 1mo ago
$140k – $200k
per year
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“Today, nearly 200 people around the globe work on Speechify in a 100% distributed setting – Speechify has no office.”
Nearly 200 people work around the globe in a 100% distributed setting without an office.
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- 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
As Team Lead for Android Core Product, you will balance active hands-on development with technical leadership. You will write and review code, take ownership of major features from concept to release, and mentor engineers across the team. In addition to shipping code, your primary impact will involve resolving shared technical bottlenecks, refining verification pipelines, standardizing architecture, and streamlining release cycles.
What you'll do
- Own major features end to end, collaborating closely with design and product through to production release.
- Review pull requests, mentor engineers, and provide actionable feedback that levels up team capabilities.
- Shift verification left by automating checks, providing nightly builds for QA, and resolving critical issues.
- Consolidate redundant implementations and keep shared components tested, maintainable, and clear.
- Run sprint planning to align engineering focus on critical decisions and reduce manual release overhead.
What you bring
- 5+ years of software engineering experience, including leading a team or owning a major product surface while staying hands-on.
- Deep expertise in Kotlin, Coroutines, Flow, Dagger 2, MVVM, Clean Architecture, and background audio services.
- Proven experience building and maintaining background audio or long-running Android background tasks.
- Strong approach to testing, architectural design, and UI/UX implementation.
- Demonstrated ability to drive technical alignment, mentor team members, and navigate change management.
About Speechify
Speechify builds text-to-speech tools used by over 50 million people to listen to reading materials across Android, iOS, Mac, Chrome, and Web. The company operates as a fully distributed team of nearly 200 people globally without a physical office.
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