Senior Android Lead, Core Product

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

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

Remote-friendly

Asynchronous culture

Job summary

Speechify—a leader in text-to-speech apps—seeks a Senior Android Engineer to own major features, shape the Android team, and improve reliability across the app. You’ll collaborate with product, design, and engineering to deliver high-quality releases and nightly builds for QA.

Ideal candidates bring 5+ years of Android experience, Kotlin expertise, and a passion for top-tier UI/UX. This distributed, fast-paced environment values ownership, communication, and continuous improvement.

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
• 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 experience

Kotlin

Kotlin Coroutines

Kotlin Flow

Jetpack Navigation

Dagger 2

MVVM

Clean Architecture

Background Services

Music Player Service

Android Animations

JUnit tests

Communication skills

Problem solving

Continuous feedback

Job description

Speechify—a leader in text-to-speech apps—seeks a Senior Android Engineer to own major features, shape the Android team, and improve reliability across the app. You’ll collaborate with product, design, and engineering to deliver high-quality releases and nightly builds for QA.

Ideal candidates bring 5+ years of Android experience, Kotlin expertise, and a passion for top-tier UI/UX. This distributed, fast-paced environment values ownership, communication, and continuous improvement.