Senior Android Engineer — Core Product

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

Benefits offered by this job

Fast-growing environment

Entrepreneurial-minded team

Hands-off management

Life-changing product

Competitive salaries

Asynchronous culture

Impactful work with millions of users

AI and audio focus

Job summary

Speechify is seeking a Senior Android Engineer to lead major features in our Android app and help grow the user base. You will shape the direction of the Android team, own reliability metrics, and collaborate with Product, Design, and Engineering to deliver high-quality experiences.

The ideal candidate has 5+ years in software development, deep Kotlin expertise, and hands-on experience with MVVM, Jetpack Compose, Dagger 2, and 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 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

• 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

Android development

Kotlin

Kotlin Coroutines

Kotlin Flow

Dagger 2

MVVM

Clean Architecture

Jetpack Compose

JUnit

Testing

Communication skills

User empathy

Job description

Speechify is seeking a Senior Android Engineer to lead major features in our Android app and help grow the user base. You will shape the direction of the Android team, own reliability metrics, and collaborate with Product, Design, and Engineering to deliver high-quality experiences.

The ideal candidate has 5+ years in software development, deep Kotlin expertise, and hands-on experience with MVVM, Jetpack Compose, Dagger 2, and testing.