Senior Android Engineer: Core Product & Leadership

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

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Stock options

Asynchronous culture

Impactful product

Job summary

Speechify is seeking a Senior Android Engineer to scale the Android app as the user base grows. You will own features, shape the Android team’s direction, and ensure reliable key features with strong collaboration across Product, Design, and Engineering.

The role emphasizes strategic thinking, fast delivery, and delivering high-quality user experiences, with a flat organization and emphasis on leadership through competence.

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 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.
• 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 for 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 components

Kotlin

Kotlin Coroutines

Kotlin Flow

Dagger 2

MVVM

Clean Architecture

JUnit tests

Android UI/UX

Testing

Team communication

Open source contribution

Tools

Jetpack Navigation

Room

Jetpack Compose

Dagger 2

JUnit

Job description

Speechify is seeking a Senior Android Engineer to scale the Android app as the user base grows. You will own features, shape the Android team’s direction, and ensure reliable key features with strong collaboration across Product, Design, and Engineering.

The role emphasizes strategic thinking, fast delivery, and delivering high-quality user experiences, with a flat organization and emphasis on leadership through competence.