Remote Tech Lead, Android Core Product

Speechify; Los Angeles, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Stock options

Asynchronous culture

Job summary

Speechify is hiring a Tech Lead, Android Core Product in Los Angeles, CA. You will own major Android features, shape the team’s direction, and drive reliability and performance for the Android app across platforms.

You’ll collaborate with design and product, review pull requests, and deliver high-quality builds and nightly QA artifacts. The role demands 5+ years of Android experience, strong Kotlin skills, and a passion for 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 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.

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

Kotlin

Coroutines

Dagger 2

MVVM

Jetpack

JUnit

Android UI/UX

Tools

Android Studio

Job description

Speechify is hiring a Tech Lead, Android Core Product in Los Angeles, CA. You will own major Android features, shape the team’s direction, and drive reliability and performance for the Android app across platforms.

You’ll collaborate with design and product, review pull requests, and deliver high-quality builds and nightly QA artifacts. The role demands 5+ years of Android experience, strong Kotlin skills, and a passion for UX.