Senior Android Lead — Core Product

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

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Asynchronous culture

Life-changing product

Stock options

Job summary

Speechify is seeking a Senior Android Engineer to scale our Android app for millions of users. You’ll own major features, partner with Design and Product, and help shape our mobile roadmap.

You bring 5+ years of software experience, deep Kotlin knowledge, MVVM, Dagger 2, Jetpack Navigation, and a passion for great UX. You’ll write tests and elevate code quality in a fully distributed environment.

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 tests and how to approach writing tests.
• Self-drive to improve the app and codebase beyond 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 delivering high quality implementations.
• Shape the future of the 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 and unforeseen challenges.
• Take ownership of feature releases and provide nightly builds for QA.

Skills

5+ years exp

Android components

Android app experience

Kotlin

Kotlin Coroutines

Kotlin Flow

Dagger 2

MVVM

Clean Architecture

Background services

Music Player Service

Android Animations

Jetpack Navigation

JUnit tests

Excellent communication

User oriented design

Continuous feedback

Tools

Android Studio

Job description

Speechify is seeking a Senior Android Engineer to scale our Android app for millions of users. You’ll own major features, partner with Design and Product, and help shape our mobile roadmap.

You bring 5+ years of software experience, deep Kotlin knowledge, MVVM, Dagger 2, Jetpack Navigation, and a passion for great UX. You’ll write tests and elevate code quality in a fully distributed environment.