Senior Android Lead — Core Product (Remote)

Speechify; United States; Remote; USD 30,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salaries

Stock options

Friendly and laid-back atmosphere

Opportunity to make a big impact

Asynchronous culture

Job summary

Speechify is seeking a Senior Android Engineer to support the growing Android user base and work on exciting projects. You will help shape the Android team, own major features, and deliver high-quality experiences that delight users.

The role requires 5+ years of software engineering, strong Kotlin expertise, and a passion for excellent UI/UX. Collaboration with Product, Design, and Engineering is essential in a fast-paced, autonomous 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 the importance of tests and how to approach writing tests.
• 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.
• Shape the future of our Android team.
• Own, maintain and improve reliability metrics for key features.
• Participate in discussions across Product, Design, Engineering.
• Review pull requests and support teammates.
• Handle critical issues or unexpected challenges.
• Take ownership of feature releases and provide nightly builds for QA.

Skills

5+ years of software engineering

Android components

Android app experience

Product design intuition

User empathy

Android UI/UX

Testing mindset

Self-driven

Kotlin

Kotlin Coroutines

Kotlin Flow

Dagger 2

MVVM

Clean Architecture

Background Services

Music Player Service

Android Animations

Jetpack Navigation

JUnit

Communication skills

Problem solving

Tools

Kotlin

Kotlin Coroutines

Kotlin Flow

Jetpack Navigation

Dagger 2

Room

Custom Views Canvas & Paint

Jetpack Compose

JUnit

Job description

Speechify is seeking a Senior Android Engineer to support the growing Android user base and work on exciting projects. You will help shape the Android team, own major features, and deliver high-quality experiences that delight users.

The role requires 5+ years of software engineering, strong Kotlin expertise, and a passion for excellent UI/UX. Collaboration with Product, Design, and Engineering is essential in a fast-paced, autonomous environment.