Senior Android Lead, Core Product

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

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

Bonus

Remote-friendly culture

Asynchronous culture

Job summary

Speechify is seeking an Senior Android Engineer to lead features for its Android app, shaping the future of the Android team and delivering high-quality user experiences. You will own critical features, coordinate with Product and Design, and ensure robust reliability and testing.

The role requires 5+ years in software engineering, deep Kotlin expertise, and experience building Android apps, with a focus on elegant UI/UX.

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

Kotlin Coroutines

Kotlin Flow

Dagger 2

MVVM

Clean Architecture

Background Services

Music Player Service

Android Animations

Jetpack Navigation

JUnit

Job description

Speechify is seeking an Senior Android Engineer to lead features for its Android app, shaping the future of the Android team and delivering high-quality user experiences. You will own critical features, coordinate with Product and Design, and ensure robust reliability and testing.

The role requires 5+ years in software engineering, deep Kotlin expertise, and experience building Android apps, with a focus on elegant UI/UX.