Senior Android Core Product Tech Lead

Speechify; Baltimore, Northern (MD, KY); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Stock options

Bonus program

Remote-friendly culture

Job summary

Speechify, a distributed team delivering text-to-speech products, is seeking a Senior Android Engineer to own major features for the Android app and help shape the future of the Android team.

You will work on reliable, high-quality features, collaborate with Product, Design, and Engineering, and help deliver nightly builds for QA. The role offers competitive compensation and the opportunity to impact learning differences worldwide.

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
• 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
• 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

Kotlin

Kotlin Coroutines

Kotlin Flow

Dagger 2

MVVM

Clean Architecture

Background Services

Android Animations

Jetpack Navigation

JUnit tests

Job description

Speechify, a distributed team delivering text-to-speech products, is seeking a Senior Android Engineer to own major features for the Android app and help shape the future of the Android team.

You will work on reliable, high-quality features, collaborate with Product, Design, and Engineering, and help deliver nightly builds for QA. The role offers competitive compensation and the opportunity to impact learning differences worldwide.