Senior Android Lead - Core Product & UX

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

Benefits offered by this job

Fast-growing environment

Entrepreneurial team

Hands-off management

Life-changing product

Competitive salaries

Asynchronous culture

Impactful projects

AI and audio focus

Job summary

Speechify seeks a Senior Android Engineer to drive features in our Android app, support rapid growth, and contribute to high-quality user experiences. You will shape the Android team's direction, collaborate with Product and Design, and own critical releases and reliability metrics.

The ideal candidate has 5+ years of software engineering, strong Kotlin expertise, and a passion for testing. This is a fully remote US-based role with fast decision cycles.

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

Jetpack Navigation

MVVM

Clean Architecture

JUnit

Android UI/UX

Excellent communication

Android components

Tools

Dagger 2

Room

Background Services

Music Player Service

Android Animations

Jetpack Compose

Job description

Speechify seeks a Senior Android Engineer to drive features in our Android app, support rapid growth, and contribute to high-quality user experiences. You will shape the Android team's direction, collaborate with Product and Design, and own critical releases and reliability metrics.

The ideal candidate has 5+ years of software engineering, strong Kotlin expertise, and a passion for testing. This is a fully remote US-based role with fast decision cycles.