Senior Android Lead — Core Product

Speechify; Savannah (GA); Remote; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salaries

Asynchronous culture

Impactful work

Life-changing product

Job summary

Speechify is seeking a Senior Android Engineer to drive major features and shape the Android team. You will own reliable, high-quality experiences and collaborate with Product, Design and Engineering to release robust updates.

The role emphasizes strategic thinking, fast-paced delivery, and user-centric design, with a distributed, leadership-driven culture. You will help build products for millions and contribute to a transformative learning platform.

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 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

Coroutines

Flow

Dagger 2

MVVM

Unit tests

UI/UX

Android

Communication

5+ years experience

Tools

Room

Jetpack Compose

Jetpack Navigation

JUnit

Job description

Speechify is seeking a Senior Android Engineer to drive major features and shape the Android team. You will own reliable, high-quality experiences and collaborate with Product, Design and Engineering to release robust updates.

The role emphasizes strategic thinking, fast-paced delivery, and user-centric design, with a distributed, leadership-driven culture. You will help build products for millions and contribute to a transformative learning platform.