Senior Android Lead — Core Product (Remote)

Speechify; Lexington, Northern (KY, KY); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salaries

Stock options

Asynchronous culture

Job summary

Speechify is seeking a Tech Lead for Android Core Product in Lexington, KY, to own major features, shape the Android team's future, and improve reliability metrics. You will collaborate with Product, Design, and Engineering to deliver high-quality experiences and provide nightly builds for QA.

The role requires strategic thinking, fast-paced execution, and a focus on excellent UX. Speechify operates a fully distributed team with an emphasis on leadership through technical excellence.

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 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
• 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

Jetpack Navigation

JUnit

Jetpack Compose

Room

Tools

Android Studio

Git

Job description

Speechify is seeking a Tech Lead for Android Core Product in Lexington, KY, to own major features, shape the Android team's future, and improve reliability metrics. You will collaborate with Product, Design, and Engineering to deliver high-quality experiences and provide nightly builds for QA.

The role requires strategic thinking, fast-paced execution, and a focus on excellent UX. Speechify operates a fully distributed team with an emphasis on leadership through technical excellence.