Senior Android Lead — Core Product & UX

Speechify; Baltimore (MD); Remote; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salaries

Asynchronous culture

Entrepreneurial team

Impact on AI/audio products

Life-changing product

Job summary

Speechify is a leading text-to-speech platform used by millions to turn text into natural audio. We’re a fully distributed team and are looking for a Senior Android Engineer to help us grow our Android app, improve user experiences, and push the boundaries of mobile UX.

Join a fast-moving, collaboration-first environment where ownership and impact matter. You’ll own major features, mentor teammates, and work with design, product, and engineering to deliver reliable, delightful Android

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 write 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

• Own major features and deliver high quality features with design team.
• 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 cope with unexpected challenges.
• Take ownership of feature releases and nightly builds for QA.

Skills

Kotlin

Kotlin Coroutines

Kotlin Flow

Dagger 2

MVVM

Clean Architecture

Background Services

Music Player Service

Android Animations

Jetpack Navigation

JUnit tests

Android components

UI/UX design

Communication skills

Problem solving

Tools

Room

Jetpack Compose

Jetpack Navigation

Dagger 2

JUnit

Job description

Speechify is a leading text-to-speech platform used by millions to turn text into natural audio. We’re a fully distributed team and are looking for a Senior Android Engineer to help us grow our Android app, improve user experiences, and push the boundaries of mobile UX.

Join a fast-moving, collaboration-first environment where ownership and impact matter. You’ll own major features, mentor teammates, and work with design, product, and engineering to deliver reliable, delightful Android