Remote Senior Android Lead – Core Product & UX

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

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Stock options

Remote-friendly culture

Impactful work for millions

Job summary

Speechify is seeking a Senior Android Engineer to own major features and help drive the Android platform forward. You’ll collaborate with Product, Design, and Engineering to deliver high-quality experiences that delight users and scale with our growing user base.

You will shape the Android team’s direction, improve reliability, and deliver releases with robust testing. The role emphasizes strategic thinking, fast execution, and strong communication in a distributed environment.

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, Coroutines, 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 experience

Android components

Kotlin

Kotlin Coroutines

Kotlin Flow

Dagger 2

MVVM

Clean Architecture

JUnit tests

Android UI/UX

Tools

Jetpack Navigation

Room

Custom Views

Canvas & Paint

Jetpack Compose

Job description

Speechify is seeking a Senior Android Engineer to own major features and help drive the Android platform forward. You’ll collaborate with Product, Design, and Engineering to deliver high-quality experiences that delight users and scale with our growing user base.

You will shape the Android team’s direction, improve reliability, and deliver releases with robust testing. The role emphasizes strategic thinking, fast execution, and strong communication in a distributed environment.