Senior Android Lead — Core Product (Remote)

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

Benefits offered by this job

Fast-growing environment

Entrepreneurial-minded team

Hands-off management

Impact on learning differences

Job summary

Speechify, a distributed company with no offices, is seeking a Senior Android Engineer to support rapid growth of our Android app. You will own major features, collaborate with design and product teams, and help shape the Android roadmap.

The role emphasizes strategic thinking, fast delivery, and delightful user experiences. We value hands-off leadership, strong coding skills, and a passion for building accessible products that help millions read better.

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.

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 tests

Android components

Communication skills

Years of experience

Tools

Room

Custom Views, Canvas & Paint

Jetpack Compose

Job description

Speechify, a distributed company with no offices, is seeking a Senior Android Engineer to support rapid growth of our Android app. You will own major features, collaborate with design and product teams, and help shape the Android roadmap.

The role emphasizes strategic thinking, fast delivery, and delightful user experiences. We value hands-off leadership, strong coding skills, and a passion for building accessible products that help millions read better.