Remote Senior Android Tech Lead - Core Product

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

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salaries

Stock options

Flexible, remote-friendly environment

Impactful, life-changing product

Job summary

Speechify is seeking a Senior Android Engineer to lead features in the Android app and help shape the future of the Android team. You’ll own, maintain, and improve reliability metrics for key features, collaborating with Product, Design, and Engineering to deliver high-quality experiences for users.

Ideal candidates have 5+ years of software engineering, strong Kotlin and Android UI/UX skills, and a passion for testing.

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.

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

Android app experience

Kotlin

Kotlin Coroutines

Kotlin Flow

Dagger 2

MVVM

Clean Architecture

Jetpack Navigation

JUnit tests

Android Animations

Communication

User-oriented problem solving

Tools

Room

Jetpack Compose

Custom Views

Canvas & Paint

Job description

Speechify is seeking a Senior Android Engineer to lead features in the Android app and help shape the future of the Android team. You’ll own, maintain, and improve reliability metrics for key features, collaborating with Product, Design, and Engineering to deliver high-quality experiences for users.

Ideal candidates have 5+ years of software engineering, strong Kotlin and Android UI/UX skills, and a passion for testing.