Senior Android Engineer — Core Product & UX Lead

Speechify Inc.; Townsville City; Remote; AUD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salaries

Asynchronous culture

Impactful products

Remote-friendly environment

Job summary

Speechify Inc. is seeking a Senior Android Engineer to grow our Android app within a globally distributed team. You will own major features, influence UI/UX decisions, and deliver high-quality experiences for millions of readers across platforms.

This role demands 5+ years of Android development, solid Kotlin expertise, and a passion for testing. You will shape the Android stack, maintain reliability, review PRs, and contribute to an asynchronous, product-driven culture.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of Android engineering experience.
• Familiarity with Android components.
• Experience building or contributing to at least one Android app.
• Product design intuition and user empathy.
• Drive to push the boundaries of Android UI/UX.
• Understanding of tests and how to approach writing tests.
• Self-drive to improve the app and codebase beyond the spec.
• Rock solid experience with Kotlin, Kotlin Coroutines, Kotlin Flow, Dagger 2, MVVM, Clean Architecture, Background Services, Music Player Service, Android Animations, Jetpack Navigation, JUnit tests.
• Excellent communication skills.
• User oriented problem solving approach.
• Driven with continuous feedback from leaders.

Responsibilities

• Owning major features and delivering high quality features with the design team.
• Shape the future of our Android team.
• Own, maintain and improve reliability metrics for key features.
• Collaborate with Product, Design and Engineering across teams.
• Review pull requests and support teammates.
• Handle critical issues and adapt to unexpected challenges.
• Take ownership of feature releases and provide nightly builds for QA.

Skills

Android development

Kotlin

Kotlin Coroutines

Kotlin Flow

Jetpack Navigation

Dagger 2

MVVM

Clean Architecture

Unit testing

Communication skills

User-centric design

Problem solving

Tools

Android Studio

JUnit

Git

Job description

Speechify Inc. is seeking a Senior Android Engineer to grow our Android app within a globally distributed team. You will own major features, influence UI/UX decisions, and deliver high-quality experiences for millions of readers across platforms.

This role demands 5+ years of Android development, solid Kotlin expertise, and a passion for testing. You will shape the Android stack, maintain reliability, review PRs, and contribute to an asynchronous, product-driven culture.