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Speechify lists this Team Lead, Android Core Product - Cary, NC, USA opportunity in remote, Oregon. Review the employer’s description below for duties, qualifications and application requirements.
Job description
Remote
Over 50 million people use Speechifys text-to-speech products to turn whatever theyre reading – PDFs, books, Google Docs, news articles, websites – into audio, so they can read faster, read more, and remember more. Speechifys text-to-speech reading products include its iOS app, Android App, Mac App, Chrome Extension, and Web App. Google recently named Speechify the Chrome Extension of the Year and Apple named Speechify its Design award winner for inclusivity for 2025.
Today, nearly 200 people around the globe work on Speechify in a 100% distributed setting – Speechify has no office. These include frontend and backend engineers, AI research scientists, and others from Amazon, Microsoft, and Google, leading PhD programs like Stanford, high growth startups like Stripe, Vercel, Bolt, and many founders of their own companies.
Our Android app is the most used text-to-speech app in the Play Store, and the user base has grown faster than the way we build for it. Youll be writing code, reviewing code, and owning features of your own — that doesnt shrink when you take this job. If you want to stop building, this isnt the role. Shift verification left: grow what can be checked automatically so the nightly build going to QA is a confirmation rather than the first time anyone finds out
Run planning so the teams attention goes to the work that still needs decisions rather than the work thats already clear
Handle critical issues, own feature releases, and provide nightly builds for the QA team
Make sure the people early in their careers are getting work they can learn from, and the time to learn from it
Some of your engineers will be skeptical about parts of how the team is asked to work. 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, including what cant be covered by them
~ Something you introduced to a team that stuck after you stopped pushing it, and an honest account of what it cost to get there
~ A track record of building things the rest of your team actually used, not only things that made you faster
~ 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 whats outlined in the spec
~ Bonus
Building, maintaining, or contributing to open source Android projects
Experience with iOS, Web, or NodeJS
Kotlin · Kotlin Coroutines · Kotlin Flow · Jetpack Navigation · Dagger 2 · Room · Custom Views, Canvas & Paint · Jetpack Compose · JUnit
The United States Based
Salary range for this role is: 140,000-200,000 USD/Year + Bonus + Stock depending on experience
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Speechify does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status.
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