Senior Android Lead - Core Product & UX

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

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Job summary

Speechify is seeking a Senior Android Engineer to advance our Android app, support our growing user base, and help shape product UX. You will own features, collaborate with design and product teams, and improve reliability while shipping high-quality code in a fast-paced, distributed environment.

The ideal candidate has 5+ years of Android experience, deep Kotlin knowledge, and a passion for building delightful user experiences.

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 approach writing tests.
• 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 working closely with our 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 unexpected challenges.
• Take ownership of feature releases and provide nightly builds for QA.

Tools

Kotlin

Kotlin Coroutines

Kotlin Flow

Jetpack Navigation

Dagger 2

Room

Custom Views

Canvas & Paint

Jetpack Compose

JUnit

MVVM

Clean Architecture

Background Services

Music Player Service

Android Animations

Job description

Speechify is seeking a Senior Android Engineer to advance our Android app, support our growing user base, and help shape product UX. You will own features, collaborate with design and product teams, and improve reliability while shipping high-quality code in a fast-paced, distributed environment.

The ideal candidate has 5+ years of Android experience, deep Kotlin knowledge, and a passion for building delightful user experiences.