Senior Android Lead, Core Product – Remote

Speechify; Berkeley (CA); Remote; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

Bonus program

Competitive salary

Distributed team

Job summary

Speechify, a distributed team, seeks a Tech Lead for Android Core Product to guide major features and drive innovation in our flagship Android app from Berkeley, CA. You will own feature deliveries, collaborate across Product, Design, and Engineering, and mentor peers while delivering fast, high-quality user experiences.

You will ensure reliability with metrics, participate in cross-team discussions, and own releases with nightly builds for QA in a fast-paced, async culture.

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.

Responsibilities

• Own major features and deliver high quality features in the app.
• Shape the future of the Android team.
• Own, maintain and improve reliability metrics for key features.
• Participate in discussions with Product, Design, Engineering.
• Review pull requests and support teammates.
• Handle critical issues and unexpected challenges.
• Take ownership of feature releases and provide nightly builds for QA.

Skills

Kotlin

Kotlin Coroutines

Kotlin Flow

Jetpack Navigation

Dagger 2

MVVM

Clean Architecture

JUnit

Job description

Speechify, a distributed team, seeks a Tech Lead for Android Core Product to guide major features and drive innovation in our flagship Android app from Berkeley, CA. You will own feature deliveries, collaborate across Product, Design, and Engineering, and mentor peers while delivering fast, high-quality user experiences.

You will ensure reliability with metrics, participate in cross-team discussions, and own releases with nightly builds for QA in a fast-paced, async culture.