Senior Android Lead – Core Product & UX

Speechify; United States; Remote; USD 30,000 - 115,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Stock options

Asynchronous culture

Impact millions

Job summary

Speechify is a fast-growing, fully distributed company delivering leading text-to-speech products across iOS, Android, Mac, Chrome, and Web. We seek a Senior Android Engineer to own major features, shape the Android team, and improve reliability across the app.

You’ll work with Kotlin, coroutines, MVVM, Dagger 2, and Jetpack components while collaborating with Design and Product to create delightful user experiences for millions of learners worldwide.

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

Kotlin Coroutines

Kotlin Flow

Dagger 2

MVVM

Clean Architecture

Background Services

Music Player Service

Android Animations

Jetpack Navigation

JUnit tests

Tools

Room

Custom Views Canvas & Paint

Jetpack Compose

Job description

Speechify is a fast-growing, fully distributed company delivering leading text-to-speech products across iOS, Android, Mac, Chrome, and Web. We seek a Senior Android Engineer to own major features, shape the Android team, and improve reliability across the app.

You’ll work with Kotlin, coroutines, MVVM, Dagger 2, and Jetpack components while collaborating with Design and Product to create delightful user experiences for millions of learners worldwide.