Android Core Product Tech Lead

Speechify; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Stock options

Asynchronous culture

Impactful work in AI/audio

Job summary

Speechify is seeking a Senior Android Engineer to lead major features for its Android app and shape the future of the Android team. You will own, maintain and improve reliability metrics while collaborating with Product, Design, and Engineering to deliver high quality user experiences.

The role emphasizes strategic thinking, fast-paced delivery, and a passion for building products that delight users. The company operates a fully distributed team with a strong focus on outcomes and asynchronous

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

• Own major features and work closely 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 discussions across 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

Software engineering

Android

Product design intuition

User empathy

Testing mindset

Communication skills

Self-motivation

Tools

Kotlin

Kotlin Coroutines

Kotlin Flow

Dagger 2

MVVM

Clean Architecture

Background Services

Music Player Service

Android Animations

Jetpack Navigation

JUnit

Room

Jetpack Compose

Job description

Speechify is seeking a Senior Android Engineer to lead major features for its Android app and shape the future of the Android team. You will own, maintain and improve reliability metrics while collaborating with Product, Design, and Engineering to deliver high quality user experiences.

The role emphasizes strategic thinking, fast-paced delivery, and a passion for building products that delight users. The company operates a fully distributed team with a strong focus on outcomes and asynchronous