Senior Android Lead - Core Product & UX Innovation

Speechify; Ireland; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Speechify is hiring a Senior Android Engineer to own major app features and shape the future of our Android team. You will deliver high quality user experiences, review PRs, and work closely with Product and Design to drive product decisions.

We expect 5+ years of software engineering, deep Kotlin expertise, MVVM and Clean Architecture, and a passion for testing and reliability. The role offers ownership of nightly builds and releases in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience.
• 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
• Experience building or contributing to at least one Android app
• Familiarity with Android components
• Product design intuition and user empathy
• User oriented problem solving approach
• Experience building, maintaining, or contributing to open source projects in Android
• Experience with iOS, Web or NodeJS

Responsibilities

• Own major features and deliver high quality features.
• Shape the future of our Android team.
• Own, maintain and improve reliability metrics for key features.
• Participate in discussions across teams - 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

Strategic thinking

Product decision making

User experience design

Ownership

Collaboration

Communication

Tools

Kotlin

Kotlin Coroutines

Kotlin Flow

Jetpack Navigation

Dagger 2

Room

Custom Views

Canvas & Paint

Jetpack Compose

JUnit

Job description

Speechify is hiring a Senior Android Engineer to own major app features and shape the future of our Android team. You will deliver high quality user experiences, review PRs, and work closely with Product and Design to drive product decisions.

We expect 5+ years of software engineering, deep Kotlin expertise, MVVM and Clean Architecture, and a passion for testing and reliability. The role offers ownership of nightly builds and releases in a fast-paced environment.