Senior Android Lead — Core Product & UX

Speechify; Santa Cruz (CA); Remote; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Asynchronous culture

Fully distributed team

Job summary

Speechify, a fully distributed tech company, is hiring a Senior Android Engineer to help scale the Android app for millions of users. You will own major features, collaborate with design, product, and engineering, and push for high-quality releases with strong test coverage.

Ideal candidates have 5+ years of Android engineering, deep Kotlin expertise, and a passion for accessible, delightful UI. This is a remote, fast-paced role in a company that values autonomy and impact.

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.

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

5+ years of software engineering

Android components familiarity

Experience building Android apps

Product design intuition

Android UI/UX drive

Testing mindset

Self-driven improvement

Kotlin

Coroutines

Flow

Dagger 2

MVVM

Clean Architecture

Background Services

Music Player Service

Android Animations

Jetpack Navigation

JUnit

Tools

Kotlin

Kotlin Coroutines

Kotlin Flow

Jetpack Navigation

Dagger 2

Room

Custom Views

Jetpack Compose

JUnit

Job description

Speechify, a fully distributed tech company, is hiring a Senior Android Engineer to help scale the Android app for millions of users. You will own major features, collaborate with design, product, and engineering, and push for high-quality releases with strong test coverage.

Ideal candidates have 5+ years of Android engineering, deep Kotlin expertise, and a passion for accessible, delightful UI. This is a remote, fast-paced role in a company that values autonomy and impact.