Senior Android Lead: Core Product, Kotlin & UX

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

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salaries

Stock options

Asynchronous culture

Opportunity to impact learning-access

Remote-friendly environment

Job summary

Speechify seeks a Senior Android Engineer to own major features, collaborate with design, and push the boundaries of Android UI/UX. You will shape the Android team’s future, ensure reliability, and participate in cross-functional discussions with Product and Engineering.

Ideal candidates bring 5+ years of software engineering, Kotlin expertise, and a passion for delivering high-quality user experiences in a fast-paced, 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.

Responsibilities

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

Skills

Kotlin

Kotlin Coroutines

Kotlin Flow

Dagger 2

MVVM

Clean Architecture

Background Services

Music Player Service

Android Animations

Jetpack Navigation

JUnit tests

Android UI/UX

Communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field

Tools

Android Studio

Git

Job description

Speechify seeks a Senior Android Engineer to own major features, collaborate with design, and push the boundaries of Android UI/UX. You will shape the Android team’s future, ensure reliability, and participate in cross-functional discussions with Product and Engineering.

Ideal candidates bring 5+ years of software engineering, Kotlin expertise, and a passion for delivering high-quality user experiences in a fast-paced, distributed environment.