Senior Android Engineer — Core Product Lead

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

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus

Stock options

Competitive salary

Job summary

Speechify, a leading distributed text-to-speech solution, is seeking a Senior Android Engineer to own major Android features and deliver high quality experiences. You will work with design, product, and engineering to release reliable features, while shaping the direction of our Android team in a fast-paced environment.

The ideal candidate has 5+ years of software engineering experience, deep Android knowledge, and a passion for UI/UX excellence.

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 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

Kotlin

Kotlin Coroutines

Kotlin Flow

Dagger 2

MVVM

Clean Architecture

Background Services

Music Player Service

Android Animations

Jetpack Navigation

JUnit tests

Tools

Kotlin

Kotlin Coroutines

Kotlin Flow

Jetpack Navigation

Dagger 2

Room

Custom Views

Canvas & Paint

Jetpack Compose

JUnit

Job description

Speechify, a leading distributed text-to-speech solution, is seeking a Senior Android Engineer to own major Android features and deliver high quality experiences. You will work with design, product, and engineering to release reliable features, while shaping the direction of our Android team in a fast-paced environment.

The ideal candidate has 5+ years of software engineering experience, deep Android knowledge, and a passion for UI/UX excellence.