Team Lead, Android Core Product

About the role

Speechify is a distributed company focused on text to speech across platforms. This Team Lead role owns core Android product work end to end, and remains hands on with coding while guiding the team and shaping how work is delivered.

What you'll do

• Own major features end to end from design through release
• Maintain and improve reliability metrics for key features
• Review pull requests and provide constructive feedback
• Unblock the team and resolve bottlenecks or duplicated efforts
• Shift verification left and automate nightly release checks
• Lead planning and determine review needs while balancing team constraints

What they're looking for

• 5+ years of software engineering experience with hands-on team leadership
• Strong Kotlin expertise including Kotlin Coroutines, Flow, Dagger 2, and MVVM
• Experience with Android background work, UI/UX beyond the spec, and testing mindset
• Ability to describe team workflows with AI agents and cross-functional collaboration
• Track record of building usable, reusable components that others adopt
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to drive change within a team

For applicants in Nigeria

• The listing states Remote and does not specify a country restriction, so Nigeria-based applicants are not ruled out
• Timezone expectations are not stated in the listing; please confirm during interview
• The listing does not specify contractor vs employee status
• Pay currency is listed as USD per year for the United States based salary range; Nigeria applicants should confirm final compensation details during interview
• The listing does not mention visa or work-authorization notes