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Salary: USD 30,000 - 160,000 / annual
Speechify is a text-to-speech platform used by over 50 million people to convert PDFs, books, Google Docs, articles, and websites into audio. The company's Android app is the most-used text-to-speech app in the Play Store, and user growth has outpaced the team's development velocity. You will lead the Android core product team as a hands-on manager who continues to write and own code while elevating team execution.
This is explicitly a hybrid technical and leadership role. You will own major features end-to-end from decision through release, maintain reliability metrics for key features, and provide code review that teaches rather than merely approves. You will unblock teammates, consolidate duplicated work across the team, and drive process improvements—noticing when the team is ready to change how it works and seeing those changes through. You will reduce manual intervention in release processes, shift verification left by growing automated checks, and run planning sessions that focus team attention on decisions rather than clear work. You will participate in cross-functional discussions with Product and Design, bringing engineering constraints early. You will also mentor early-career engineers and handle critical issues and nightly builds for QA.
Speechy is a 100% distributed company with ~200 employees globally, including engineers from Amazon, Microsoft, Google, and founders of their own companies. The culture is flat and meritocratic; leadership emerges through technical excellence and consistent delivery.
REQUIREMENTS:
- 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 testing importance and approach, including what cannot be covered by tests
- Evidence of introducing a practice or tool to a team that stuck after you stopped pushing it, with honest reflection on the cost
- Comfort with the unpopular half of leadership: asking people to change how they work and managing the friction that follows
- A principled view on which changes need heavy review and which don't, grounded in system behavior
- Track record of building tools and systems that the rest of your team actually used, not only things that made you faster
- Ability to describe how your team works with AI agents, not only how you do personally
- Product design intuition, user empathy, and drive to push Android UI/UX beyond spec
- Self-drive to improve the app and codebase beyond outlined spec
- Excellent communication skills
BONUS:
- Building, maintaining, or contributing to open-source Android projects
- Experience with iOS, Web, or NodeJS
