Team Lead, Android Core Product - Madrid, Spain

Remote

The mission of Speechify is to make sure that reading is never a barrier to learning.

Over 50 million people use Speechify's text-to-speech products to turn whatever they're reading – PDFs, books, Google Docs, news articles, websites – into audio, so they can read faster, read more, and remember more. Speechify's 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.

Overview

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. We're looking for a Team Lead to own core product work and to raise how the team works around it.

This is a hands-on role, and we want to be clear about the split. You'll be writing code, reviewing code, and owning features of your own — that doesn't shrink when you take this job. The rest of it is the part that doesn't happen on its own: catching when three people have solved the same problem separately, deciding which version everyone should use, and making sure the team's time goes to the work that actually needs a decision. If you want to stop building, this isn't the role. If you want the code you write to be the smaller half of your impact, it is.

We are a flat organization that allows anyone to become a leader by showing excellent technical skills and delivering results consistently and fast. Work ethic, solid communication skills, and obsession with winning are paramount.

What You'll Do

Some of your engineers will be skeptical about parts of how the team is asked to work. In our experience that skepticism tends to be specific and worth acting on, and the people raising it are often the right ones to hand the underlying problem to.

An Ideal Candidate Should Have

Bonus

Technologies we use

Interview process

Several technical interviews plus an assessment on a real codebase. We aim to complete the process within 1 week.

Use the tools you use every day. A good part of the process is a walkthrough where you talk through your reasoning — why this approach, what you considered and dropped, where you were unsure.

The Spain Based Salary range for this role is: 30,000-110,000 USD/Year + Bonus + Stock depending on experience.

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Speechify is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace.

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.