Senior Android Lead: Core Product & UX

Speechify; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Speechify is seeking a Senior Android Engineer to support the growing Android user base and push exciting projects forward. You will own major app features, collaborate with design and product teams, and help shape the Android roadmap in a fast-paced, distributed environment.

Ideal candidates have 5+ years of software engineering experience, strong Kotlin/Android expertise, and a passion for high-quality UI/UX. The role emphasizes testing, communication, and proactive codebase improvement.

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 beyond the spec.
• Rock solid experience with Kotlin, Coroutines, 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 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 other teammates.
• Handle critical issues or cope with unexpected challenges.
• Take ownership of feature releases and provide nightly builds for QA.

Skills

Kotlin

Kotlin Coroutines

Kotlin Flow

Dagger 2

MVVM

Jetpack Compose

JUnit

UI/UX design

Testing

Communication

Tools

Jetpack Navigation

Room

Dagger 2

Custom Views

Canvas & Paint

Job description

Speechify is seeking a Senior Android Engineer to support the growing Android user base and push exciting projects forward. You will own major app features, collaborate with design and product teams, and help shape the Android roadmap in a fast-paced, distributed environment.

Ideal candidates have 5+ years of software engineering experience, strong Kotlin/Android expertise, and a passion for high-quality UI/UX. The role emphasizes testing, communication, and proactive codebase improvement.