Android Tech Lead — Core Product, High-Impact

Speechify; Cupertino, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

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Bonus program

Flexible culture

Career growth

Job summary

Speechify is seeking a Tech Lead for Android Core Product in Cupertino, CA to guide architecture and deliver high-impact features for our Android app. You will own major features, collaborate with design, product, and engineering, and drive reliability and performance in a fast-paced distributed environment.

The ideal candidate has 5+ years of software engineering, strong Kotlin experience, and a passion for UX.

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

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

Kotlin

Android

MVVM

Unit testing

Code reviews

Tools

Kotlin

Kotlin Coroutines

Kotlin Flow

Jetpack Navigation

Dagger 2

Room

Jetpack Compose

JUnit

Job description

Speechify is seeking a Tech Lead for Android Core Product in Cupertino, CA to guide architecture and deliver high-impact features for our Android app. You will own major features, collaborate with design, product, and engineering, and drive reliability and performance in a fast-paced distributed environment.

The ideal candidate has 5+ years of software engineering, strong Kotlin experience, and a passion for UX.