Remote Android Tech Lead: Core Product

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

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus

Stock options

Asynchronous culture

Flexible work environment

Job summary

Speechify is seeking a Senior Android Engineer to own major features and deliver high-quality experiences in the Android app. You will collaborate with Product, Design and Engineering to push the platform forward in a fast-paced, distributed environment.

Ideally, you have 5+ years of software engineering, strong Kotlin expertise, and a passion for tests, UI/UX, and scalable architectures. Join us to help millions of users read and learn through exceptional Android experiences.

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 beyond 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 with design to deliver high quality Android features.
• Shape the future of the Android team.
• Own, maintain and improve reliability metrics for key features.
• Participate in cross-team discussions (Product, Design, Engineering).
• Review pull requests and support teammates.
• Handle critical issues and unexpected challenges.
• Take ownership of feature releases and provide nightly builds for QA.

Skills

Android

Kotlin

MVVM

Testing

UI/UX

Collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent

Tools

Kotlin Coroutines

Jetpack Compose

JUnit

Dagger 2

Room

Android Studio

Job description

Speechify is seeking a Senior Android Engineer to own major features and deliver high-quality experiences in the Android app. You will collaborate with Product, Design and Engineering to push the platform forward in a fast-paced, distributed environment.

Ideally, you have 5+ years of software engineering, strong Kotlin expertise, and a passion for tests, UI/UX, and scalable architectures. Join us to help millions of users read and learn through exceptional Android experiences.