Android Tech Lead — Core Product & Impact

Speechify; Newcastle upon Tyne; Remote; GBP 70,000 - 95,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salaries

Remote-friendly work

Asynchronous culture

Impactful product for millions

Job summary

Speechify is seeking a Senior Android Engineer to own major features and drive the Android product forward. You will collaborate with design and product teams to deliver high-quality experiences and push the boundaries of Android UI/UX.

We are fully distributed with no office, valuing fast delivery, autonomy, and ownership. This role offers competitive compensation and the chance to make a lasting impact on millions of learners.

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 of software engineering

Android components

Android app development

Product design intuition

Android UI/UX

Testing practices

Self-drive

Kotlin

Kotlin Coroutines

Kotlin Flow

Dagger 2

MVVM

Clean Architecture

Background Services

Music Player Service

Android Animations

Jetpack Navigation

JUnit tests

Excellent communication

User-oriented problem solving

Continuous feedback

Tools

Kotlin

Kotlin Coroutines

Kotlin Flow

Jetpack Navigation

Dagger 2

Room

Custom Views, Canvas & Paint

Jetpack Compose

JUnit

Job description

Speechify is seeking a Senior Android Engineer to own major features and drive the Android product forward. You will collaborate with design and product teams to deliver high-quality experiences and push the boundaries of Android UI/UX.

We are fully distributed with no office, valuing fast delivery, autonomy, and ownership. This role offers competitive compensation and the chance to make a lasting impact on millions of learners.