Senior Android Lead - Core Product & UX

Speechify; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salaries

Asynchronous culture

Hands-off management

Life-changing product

Job summary

Speechify is seeking a Senior Android Engineer to own major features, collaborate with design, and deliver high-quality user experiences across its Android apps. This role is ideal for someone who thinks strategically, thrives in a fast-paced, distributed environment, and loves building great user experiences that delight users.

We are a flat organization where leadership comes from technical excellence and delivery.

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 them.
• 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 delivering 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 unforeseen challenges.
• Take ownership of feature releases and provide nightly builds for QA.

Skills

Android development

Product design intuition

User empathy

Excellent communication

Problem solving

Self-drive

Kotlin

Kotlin Coroutines

Kotlin Flow

Dagger 2

MVVM

Clean Architecture

Background Services

Music Player Service

Android Animations

Jetpack Navigation

JUnit tests

Tools

Kotlin

Kotlin Coroutines

Kotlin Flow

Jetpack Navigation

Dagger 2

Room

Custom Views

Canvas & Paint

Jetpack Compose

JUnit

Job description

Speechify is seeking a Senior Android Engineer to own major features, collaborate with design, and deliver high-quality user experiences across its Android apps. This role is ideal for someone who thinks strategically, thrives in a fast-paced, distributed environment, and loves building great user experiences that delight users.

We are a flat organization where leadership comes from technical excellence and delivery.