Senior Android Lead - Core Product & UX

Speechify; New Haven (CT); Remote; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Stock options

Asynchronous culture

Flexible, laid-back atmosphere

Job summary

Speechify is seeking a Senior Android Engineer to own major features for its growing Android app, shaping the product and user experience across Kotlin-based code. You will collaborate with design and product teams to deliver high quality features and reliable performance in a fast-paced, fully distributed environment.

The ideal candidate has 5+ years of Android experience, deep Kotlin skills, and a track record building Android apps.

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

Android

Kotlin

Kotlin Coroutines

Kotlin Flow

Dagger 2

MVVM

Jetpack Navigation

JUnit

UI/UX

Android Apps

Testing

Tools

Android Studio

Job description

Speechify is seeking a Senior Android Engineer to own major features for its growing Android app, shaping the product and user experience across Kotlin-based code. You will collaborate with design and product teams to deliver high quality features and reliable performance in a fast-paced, fully distributed environment.

The ideal candidate has 5+ years of Android experience, deep Kotlin skills, and a track record building Android apps.