Senior Android Tech Lead - Core Product & UX

speechify; Newcastle upon Tyne; Remote; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

100% distributed team

Impact on learning differences

Job summary

Speechify is seeking a Senior Android Engineer to own major features, shape the Android team's future, and deliver high‑quality user experiences across our distributed product lineup. You will help maintain reliability metrics and collaborate with Product, Design, and Engineering to drive product decisions.

The role fits a self‑driven, fast‑paced environment with strong emphasis on Kotlin, testing, and delivering impactful features to millions of users.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience in Android.
• Experience with Android app development and familiarity with Android components.
• Strong understanding of Kotlin and modern Android architectures.
• Ability to design user-centric features with good test coverage.
• Excellent communication and collaboration across teams.
• Self-driven with a proactive approach to problem solving.

Responsibilities

• Own major features and collaborate with design to ship high‑quality modules.
• Shape the future of the Android team and roadmap.
• Maintain and improve reliability metrics for key features.
• Collaborate with Product, Design, Engineering across the org.
• Review PRs and support teammates during sprints.
• Handle critical issues and feature releases with nightly builds.

Skills

Software engineering

Android components

Android app development

Product design intuition

UI/UX

Testing mindset

Communication

Self-motivation

Kotlin

Kotlin Coroutines

Kotlin Flow

Dagger 2

MVVM

Jetpack Navigation

JUnit

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, shape the Android team's future, and deliver high‑quality user experiences across our distributed product lineup. You will help maintain reliability metrics and collaborate with Product, Design, and Engineering to drive product decisions.

The role fits a self‑driven, fast‑paced environment with strong emphasis on Kotlin, testing, and delivering impactful features to millions of users.