Senior Android Engineer - Core Product & UX

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

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Stock options

Asynchronous culture

Remote-friendly team

Job summary

Speechify, a distributed, reading-aid tech company, seeks a Senior Android Engineer to lead Android development and own major features across the app. You will collaborate with Design, Product, and Engineering to deliver high-quality user experiences and ensure reliability.

The role emphasizes fast iteration, strong communication, and technical leadership within a flat organization. Join a team that values experimentation, ownership, and building toolchains for rapid, nightly QA.

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 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

5+ years exp

Android components

Kotlin

Kotlin Coroutines

Kotlin Flow

MVVM

Unit testing

Android UI/UX

Communication

Tools

Dagger 2

Jetpack Compose

JUnit

Room

Jetpack Navigation

Job description

Speechify, a distributed, reading-aid tech company, seeks a Senior Android Engineer to lead Android development and own major features across the app. You will collaborate with Design, Product, and Engineering to deliver high-quality user experiences and ensure reliability.

The role emphasizes fast iteration, strong communication, and technical leadership within a flat organization. Join a team that values experimentation, ownership, and building toolchains for rapid, nightly QA.