Senior Android Engineer — Lead Features & UX (Kotlin)

Speechify; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fast-growing environment

Entrepreneurial team

Asynchronous culture

Life-changing product

Competitive salaries

Remote work

Job summary

Speechify is seeking a Senior Android Engineer to join our 100% distributed Android team and help us scale features for millions of users. You will own major features, work closely with design and product, and deliver reliable, high‑quality experiences across Android platforms while shaping the future of our Android efforts.

Ideal candidates have 5+ years of Android experience, strong Kotlin knowledge, a passion for great UI/UX, and a proven ability to write tests and ship polished apps in a

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience.
• Experience with Android components.
• Contributed to at least one Android app.
• Strong product design intuition and user empathy.
• Proficient in Kotlin and modern Android toolchain.
• Tests mindset and ability to write reliable tests.
• Self-driven with a passion for improving codebase.

Responsibilities

• Owning major features and deliver high‑quality work with design input.
• Shape the future of our Android team.
• Own, maintain and improve reliability metrics for key features.
• Collaborate with Product, Design and Engineering teams.
• Review pull requests and support teammates.
• Handle critical issues or unexpected challenges.
• Manage feature releases and provide nightly builds for QA.

Skills

5+ years software experience

Android components

Android app development

Product design intuition

User empathy

Tests

Self-motivated

Kotlin

Kotlin Coroutines

Kotlin Flow

Dagger 2

MVVM

Clean Architecture

Background Services

Music Player Service

Android Animations

Jetpack Navigation

JUnit tests

Communication skills

User-oriented problem solving

Feedback from leaders

Job description

Speechify is seeking a Senior Android Engineer to join our 100% distributed Android team and help us scale features for millions of users. You will own major features, work closely with design and product, and deliver reliable, high‑quality experiences across Android platforms while shaping the future of our Android efforts.

Ideal candidates have 5+ years of Android experience, strong Kotlin knowledge, a passion for great UI/UX, and a proven ability to write tests and ship polished apps in a