Senior Android Lead, Core Product & UX

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

Benefits offered by this job

A fast-growing environment where you1

Entrepreneurial-minded team

Hands-off management

Make a big impact in a transformative,

Competitive salaries and stock options

Open, asynchronous culture

Life-changing product for millions

Support for learning differences like:

Job summary

Speechify is seeking a Senior Android Engineer to own major features in our Android app, shaping the team and delivering high-quality user experiences. You will collaborate with Product, Design and Engineering, review PRs, and ensure reliability metrics are met.

Ideal candidates have 5+ years of Android development, strong Kotlin skills, and a product-minded, user-centric approach. This fully remote role is based in the United States.

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 - 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

5+ years of software engineering

Android components

Android app experience

Product design intuition

Android UI/UX

Testing mindset

Self-driven improvement

Kotlin, Coroutines, Flow

Dagger 2, MVVM, Clean Architecture

Background Services, Music Player

Android Animations, Jetpack Navigation

JUnit tests

Excellent communication

User-centered problem solving

Feedback orientation

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 in our Android app, shaping the team and delivering high-quality user experiences. You will collaborate with Product, Design and Engineering, review PRs, and ensure reliability metrics are met.

Ideal candidates have 5+ years of Android development, strong Kotlin skills, and a product-minded, user-centric approach. This fully remote role is based in the United States.