Remote Senior Android Lead, Core Product

Speechify; Austin (TX); Remote; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fast-growing environment

Entrepreneurial-minded team

Hands-off management

Impact and growth opportunities

Competitive salaries and stock options

Asynchronous culture

Job summary

Speechify in the United States seeks a Senior Android Engineer to lead key features in its Android app, shaping the future of the Android team and delivering high-quality experiences for users who rely on Speechify to read faster and more effectively.

You will collaborate with Product, Design and Engineering, own releases, ensure reliability metrics, and mentor teammates while embracing a fast-paced, autonomous culture focused on user-centric product decisions.

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 inside the app and deliver high-quality releases.
• 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.
• Own feature releases and provide nightly builds for QA.

Skills

Android development

Kotlin

Kotlin Coroutines

Kotlin Flow

MVVM

Clean Architecture

Testing

UI/UX design

Communication

Problem solving

Tools

Dagger 2

Room

Jetpack Compose

Jetpack Navigation

JUnit

Job description

Speechify in the United States seeks a Senior Android Engineer to lead key features in its Android app, shaping the future of the Android team and delivering high-quality experiences for users who rely on Speechify to read faster and more effectively.

You will collaborate with Product, Design and Engineering, own releases, ensure reliability metrics, and mentor teammates while embracing a fast-paced, autonomous culture focused on user-centric product decisions.