Senior Android Lead, Core Product - Remote

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

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Stock options

Bonus

Remote-friendly distributed team

Job summary

Speechify is seeking a Senior Android Engineer to advance our Android app as the user base grows. You will own major features, collaborate with design and product, and help shape the Android team’s future.

The role emphasizes reliable delivery, strong UI/UX, and rapid iteration in a fast-paced, distributed environment. We value strategic thinkers who communicate well and thrive with ownership, fast feedback loops, and high-impact projects in the text-to-speech space.

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.
• 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

MVVM

Jetpack Compose

Kotlin Coroutines

Dagger 2

Unit testing

UI/UX design

Communication

Tools

Room

Jetpack Navigation

JUnit

Job description

Speechify is seeking a Senior Android Engineer to advance our Android app as the user base grows. You will own major features, collaborate with design and product, and help shape the Android team’s future.

The role emphasizes reliable delivery, strong UI/UX, and rapid iteration in a fast-paced, distributed environment. We value strategic thinkers who communicate well and thrive with ownership, fast feedback loops, and high-impact projects in the text-to-speech space.