Remote Senior Android Lead — Own Key Features for 50M Users

Speechify; Raleigh (NC); Remote; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salaries

Stock options

Asynchronous culture

Job summary

Speechify is a distributed, fast-growing company that turns reading into audio with its text-to-speech products. We seek a Senior Android Engineer to own major features, shape the Android team's future, and maintain reliability metrics for key features within our 100% distributed organization.

The ideal candidate has 5+ years of software engineering, strong Kotlin and Android experience, and a passion for high-quality 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 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

• Owning major features and delivering high quality features with design team input.
• Shape the future of our 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 nightly builds for QA.

Skills

Kotlin

Kotlin Coroutines

Kotlin Flow

Jetpack Navigation

Dagger 2

MVVM

Clean Architecture

Background Services

Music Player Service

Android Animations

Jetpack Compose

JUnit

Android UI/UX

Testing mindset

Tools

Android Studio

Job description

Speechify is a distributed, fast-growing company that turns reading into audio with its text-to-speech products. We seek a Senior Android Engineer to own major features, shape the Android team's future, and maintain reliability metrics for key features within our 100% distributed organization.

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