Senior Android Lead — Core Product & UX Vision

Speechify Inc.; Gold Coast City; Remote; AUD 174,000 - 262,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salaries

Asynchronous culture

Impactful product

Remote-friendly work style

Job summary

Speechify Inc. is seeking a Senior Android Engineer to lead major features for our 100% distributed Android product team. You will own end-to-end delivery of high quality features, collaborate with design and product, and help shape the Android platform roadmap.

You will contribute to reliable, scalable mobile experiences across Android components, Kotlin, and Jetpack, while mentoring teammates and driving testing best practices in a fast-paced, remote environment.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software 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 above and beyond what's outlined in 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.

Responsibilities

• Owning major features and working closely with our design team - take ownership of features inside the app and become responsible of delivering high quality features
• Shape the future of our Android team
• Own, maintain and improve reliability metrics for key features
• Participate in discussions across different teams - Product, Design, Engineering
• Review pull requests, and support other teammates
• Handle critical issues or cope with unexpected challenges
• Take ownership of feature releases and provide nightly builds for the QA team

Skills

Kotlin

Kotlin Coroutines

Kotlin Flow

Jetpack Navigation

Dagger 2

MVVM

Clean Architecture

Background Services

Music Player Service

Android Animations

Jetpack Compose

JUnit tests

UI/UX

Testing mindset

Tools

Android Studio

Room

Git

Jetpack Compose

Job description

Speechify Inc. is seeking a Senior Android Engineer to lead major features for our 100% distributed Android product team. You will own end-to-end delivery of high quality features, collaborate with design and product, and help shape the Android platform roadmap.

You will contribute to reliable, scalable mobile experiences across Android components, Kotlin, and Jetpack, while mentoring teammates and driving testing best practices in a fast-paced, remote environment.