Senior Android Lead — Core Product & UX

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

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Stock options

Flexible work culture

Asynchronous communication

Impactful product

Job summary

Speechify is a fully distributed company and is seeking a Senior Android Engineer to own major features, shape the Android app, and improve reliability across Kotlin-based stacks. You will collaborate with design and product teams to deliver high-quality user experiences, write tests, review PRs, and lead feature releases.

The role requires 5+ years of Android experience and a passion for delivering fast, accessible tech for millions of users.

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 write them.
• Self-drive to improve the app and codebase above and 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 other teammates.
• Handle critical issues or cope with unexpected challenges.
• Take ownership of feature releases and provide nightly builds for QA.

Skills

Android development

Kotlin

Kotlin Coroutines

MVVM

Unit testing

Code reviews

Communication skills

User empathy

Troubleshooting

Tools

Dagger 2

Jetpack Navigation

Room

Jetpack Compose

JUnit

Custom Views

Canvas & Paint

Job description

Speechify is a fully distributed company and is seeking a Senior Android Engineer to own major features, shape the Android app, and improve reliability across Kotlin-based stacks. You will collaborate with design and product teams to deliver high-quality user experiences, write tests, review PRs, and lead feature releases.

The role requires 5+ years of Android experience and a passion for delivering fast, accessible tech for millions of users.