Senior Android Lead - Remote, Shape the Audio UX

Speechify; Aarhus; Remote; DKK 200,000 - 802,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salaries

Asynchronous culture

Entrepreneurial team

Life-changing product

Job summary

Speechify is hiring a Senior Android Engineer to support our growing Android app and help shape the user experience for millions of learners. You will own major features, collaborate with design and product teams, and push the boundaries of Android UI/UX.

The role requires 5+ years of software engineering, Kotlin and Android expertise, and a pragmatic, fast-paced mindset. We offer a fast-growing, entrepreneurial culture, competitive pay, stock, and a chance to impact education accessibility.

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 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

• Own major features and collaborate with design to deliver high quality features.
• Shape the future of the Android team.
• Own, maintain and improve reliability metrics for key features.
• Participate in cross-team discussions (Product, Design, Engineering).
• Review pull requests and support teammates.
• Handle critical issues or unexpected challenges.
• Take ownership of feature releases and provide nightly builds for QA.

Skills

5+ years of software engineering

Android components

Android app experience

Product design intuition

User empathy

Android UI/UX

Testing approach

Kotlin

Kotlin Coroutines

Kotlin Flow

Dagger 2

MVVM

Clean Architecture

Background Services

Music Player Service

Android Animations

Jetpack Navigation

JUnit tests

Communication skills

Self-drive

Continuous feedback

Job description

Speechify is hiring a Senior Android Engineer to support our growing Android app and help shape the user experience for millions of learners. You will own major features, collaborate with design and product teams, and push the boundaries of Android UI/UX.

The role requires 5+ years of software engineering, Kotlin and Android expertise, and a pragmatic, fast-paced mindset. We offer a fast-growing, entrepreneurial culture, competitive pay, stock, and a chance to impact education accessibility.