Senior Android Tech Lead – Core Product (Remote)

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

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salaries

Flexible, async culture

Life-changing product impact

Diversity & inclusion

Job summary

Speechify, a leader in text-to-speech tech, seeks a Senior Android Engineer to shape the next generation of Android apps. You will own major features, drive UI/UX quality, and collaborate across Product, Design, and Engineering to deliver reliable, scalable experiences for millions of users.

Ideal candidates bring 5+ years in software engineering with deep Kotlin expertise, strong Android component knowledge, and hands-on experience with MVVM, Jetpack Compose, and testing.

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 the importance 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
• Excellent communication skills
• User oriented problem solving approach
• Driven with continuous feedback from leaders

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

5+ years

Android components

Android app development

Kotlin

Kotlin Coroutines

Kotlin Flow

MVVM

Jetpack Navigation

JUnit tests

Excellent communication

User oriented problem solving

Continuous feedback

UI/UX focus

Tools

Room

Jetpack Compose

Canvas & Paint

Android Animations

Job description

Speechify, a leader in text-to-speech tech, seeks a Senior Android Engineer to shape the next generation of Android apps. You will own major features, drive UI/UX quality, and collaborate across Product, Design, and Engineering to deliver reliable, scalable experiences for millions of users.

Ideal candidates bring 5+ years in software engineering with deep Kotlin expertise, strong Android component knowledge, and hands-on experience with MVVM, Jetpack Compose, and testing.