Remote Senior Android Tech Lead, Core Product

Speechify; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Speechify seeks a Senior Android Engineer to lead major features in the Android app and collaborate with design to deliver high-quality experiences. This role supports our fast-growing Android user base and strategic product direction in a fully distributed environment.

You will help shape the Android team's future, improve reliability, and own feature releases with nightly builds for QA, while working across Product, Design, and Engineering.

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

Skills

Kotlin

Kotlin Coroutines

Kotlin Flow

Dagger 2

MVVM

Jetpack Compose

JUnit

Android UI/UX

Unit testing

Communication skills

Tools

Jetpack Navigation

Room

Android components

Job description

Speechify seeks a Senior Android Engineer to lead major features in the Android app and collaborate with design to deliver high-quality experiences. This role supports our fast-growing Android user base and strategic product direction in a fully distributed environment.

You will help shape the Android team's future, improve reliability, and own feature releases with nightly builds for QA, while working across Product, Design, and Engineering.