Senior Android Engineer – Lead Core App Features

Speechify; United States; Remote; USD 30,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salaries

Stock options

Remote distributed team

Job summary

Speechify, a fully distributed tech company, is seeking a Senior Android Engineer to expand our Android app experience across platforms. You will own major features, collaborate with design and product teams, and drive reliability and high-quality releases in a fast-paced environment.

This role emphasizes strategic thinking, user-focused design, and robust testing, with opportunities to impact millions of learners worldwide through Speechify’s AI-powered audio products.

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 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 Navigation

JUnit

UI/UX mindset

Communication skills

Open source contributions

Tools

Room

Jetpack Compose

Custom Views / Canvas & Paint

Android Animations

Job description

Speechify, a fully distributed tech company, is seeking a Senior Android Engineer to expand our Android app experience across platforms. You will own major features, collaborate with design and product teams, and drive reliability and high-quality releases in a fast-paced environment.

This role emphasizes strategic thinking, user-focused design, and robust testing, with opportunities to impact millions of learners worldwide through Speechify’s AI-powered audio products.