Senior Android Lead — Core Product & UX

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

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

Bonus

Async culture

Life-changing product

Job summary

Speechify is seeking a Senior Android Engineer to own major features, guide the Android team, and deliver reliable, high-quality user experiences across the Android app. You’ll work closely with Product and Design and review code with teammates, ensuring timely releases and robust nightly builds for QA.

Ideal candidates bring extensive Android and Kotlin expertise, a strong product sense, and a proactive mindset to push UI/UX boundaries while maintaining rigorous test practices.

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

• Own major features 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 teammates.
• Handle critical issues or unexpected challenges.
• Take ownership of feature releases and provide nightly builds for QA.

Skills

5+ years experience

Android components

Android app development

Product design intuition

UI/UX focus

Testing mindset

Kotlin

Kotlin Coroutines

Kotlin Flow

Dagger 2

MVVM

Clean Architecture

Jetpack Navigation

JUnit tests

Communication skills

User-centric problem solving

Continuous feedback

Tools

Room

Custom Views/Canvas & Paint

Jetpack Compose

JUnit

Job description

Speechify is seeking a Senior Android Engineer to own major features, guide the Android team, and deliver reliable, high-quality user experiences across the Android app. You’ll work closely with Product and Design and review code with teammates, ensuring timely releases and robust nightly builds for QA.

Ideal candidates bring extensive Android and Kotlin expertise, a strong product sense, and a proactive mindset to push UI/UX boundaries while maintaining rigorous test practices.