Senior Android Lead — Core Product

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

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salaries

Stock

Asynchronous culture

Job summary

Speechify, a fully distributed company, is seeking a Senior Android Engineer to own major Android features, drive architectural decisions, and deliver high quality experiences to millions of users. You’ll work with design and product teams to shape the Android app, improve reliability, and move fast in a remote-friendly environment.

You will thrive if you enjoy strategic thinking, fast-paced delivery, and creating delightful user experiences.

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

• Own major features and work closely with design to deliver high quality features.
• Shape the future of the Android team and its architecture.
• Own, maintain and monitor reliability metrics for key features.
• Collaborate across Product, Design, and Engineering teams.
• Review pull requests and support teammates.
• Handle critical issues or unexpected challenges and drive resolutions.
• Release ownership and provide nightly builds for QA.

Skills

Kotlin

Kotlin Coroutines

Kotlin Flow

Jetpack Navigation

Dagger 2

MVVM

Clean Architecture

Android Animations

JUnit

UI/UX empathy

Communication skills

Tools

Room

Custom Views

Canvas & Paint

Jetpack Compose

Job description

Speechify, a fully distributed company, is seeking a Senior Android Engineer to own major Android features, drive architectural decisions, and deliver high quality experiences to millions of users. You’ll work with design and product teams to shape the Android app, improve reliability, and move fast in a remote-friendly environment.

You will thrive if you enjoy strategic thinking, fast-paced delivery, and creating delightful user experiences.