Android Tech Lead - Core Features & UX

Speechify; Boston, Northern (MA, KY); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

Annual bonus

Competitive salary

Asynchronous culture

Job summary

Speechify, the leader in text-to-speech technology, seeks a Senior Android Engineer to advance the Android core product in Boston, MA. You will own major features, collaborate with design and product teams, and drive reliable, high-quality user experiences across Kotlin, Jetpack Compose, and MVVM.

The role is fully distributed with a US-based salary range of 140,000–200,000 USD per year plus bonus and stock.

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 the spec.

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

Android components

Android UI/UX

MVVM

UI design intuition

Kotlin

Kotlin Coroutines

Kotlin Flow

Jetpack Compose

JUnit

Dagger 2

Open source contribution

Tools

Kotlin

Kotlin Coroutines

Kotlin Flow

Jetpack Navigation

Dagger 2

Room

Jetpack Compose

JUnit

Job description

Speechify, the leader in text-to-speech technology, seeks a Senior Android Engineer to advance the Android core product in Boston, MA. You will own major features, collaborate with design and product teams, and drive reliable, high-quality user experiences across Kotlin, Jetpack Compose, and MVVM.

The role is fully distributed with a US-based salary range of 140,000–200,000 USD per year plus bonus and stock.