Senior Android Lead, Core Product & UX

Speechify; Frisco (TX); Remote; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

Remote work

Flexible hours

Competitive salary

Job summary

Speechify is seeking a Senior Android Engineer to own major features and help shape the Android app roadmap for our growing user base in a fully distributed environment. You’ll collaborate with design, product, and engineering to deliver high-quality features and reliable releases for millions of readers.

You have 5+ years of Android experience, strong Kotlin skills, and a passion for elegant UI/UX. This role rewards ownership, fast shipping, and making a real impact on learning differences

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 Development

Unit Testing

UI/UX Design

Communication

Problem Solving

Fast delivery

Mentoring

Tools

Kotlin Coroutines

Kotlin Flow

Dagger 2

MVVM

Jetpack Navigation

Room

Jetpack Compose

JUnit

Android Animations

Background Services

Custom Views

Job description

Speechify is seeking a Senior Android Engineer to own major features and help shape the Android app roadmap for our growing user base in a fully distributed environment. You’ll collaborate with design, product, and engineering to deliver high-quality features and reliable releases for millions of readers.

You have 5+ years of Android experience, strong Kotlin skills, and a passion for elegant UI/UX. This role rewards ownership, fast shipping, and making a real impact on learning differences