Remote Senior Android Lead — Core Product

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

Job summary

Speechify is seeking a Senior Android Engineer to join our fully distributed team. You will own features from conception to release, collaborate with design, product, and engineering, and drive reliable, high-quality Android experiences for millions of users.

Ideal candidates will have 5+ years of Android experience, deep Kotlin expertise, and a passion for UX. The interview process is fast, and ownership, communication, and results matter in this role.

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 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

• 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

5+ years of software engineering

Familiarity with Android components

Product design intuition and user emp​

Drive to push the boundaries ofAndroid

Understanding of tests and how toappro

Self-drive to improve the app

Excellent communication skills

User oriented problem solving

Driven with continuous feedback fromLE

Tools

Kotlin

Kotlin Coroutines

Kotlin Flow

Dagger 2

MVVM

Clean Architecture

Background Services

Music Player Service

Android Animations

Jetpack Navigation

JUnit tests

Jetpack Compose

Room

Job description

Speechify is seeking a Senior Android Engineer to join our fully distributed team. You will own features from conception to release, collaborate with design, product, and engineering, and drive reliable, high-quality Android experiences for millions of users.

Ideal candidates will have 5+ years of Android experience, deep Kotlin expertise, and a passion for UX. The interview process is fast, and ownership, communication, and results matter in this role.