Senior Android Lead, Core Product — Remote

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

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salaries

Stock options

Async culture

Impactful product

Job summary

Speechify, a fully distributed company, is seeking a Senior Android Engineer to scale our Android app to millions of users. You’ll own major features, collaborate with design and product, and shape the future of our Android team.

The ideal candidate has 5+ years of Android engineering, strong Kotlin and Jetpack skills, and a track record delivering high quality UX. You’ll thrive in a fast-paced, feedback-driven environment and contribute to ongoing improvement.

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.
• 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

Android development

MVVM

Jetpack Navigation

Dagger 2

Unit testing

Communication

UI/UX design

Tools

Jetpack Compose

JUnit

Android Studio

Job description

Speechify, a fully distributed company, is seeking a Senior Android Engineer to scale our Android app to millions of users. You’ll own major features, collaborate with design and product, and shape the future of our Android team.

The ideal candidate has 5+ years of Android engineering, strong Kotlin and Jetpack skills, and a track record delivering high quality UX. You’ll thrive in a fast-paced, feedback-driven environment and contribute to ongoing improvement.