Senior Android Lead - Core Product & UX

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

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salaries

Stock options

Flexible, async culture

Job summary

Speechify, a 100% distributed company, is seeking a Senior Android Engineer to lead major Android features, shape the team’s direction, and improve reliability across key components. You’ll collaborate with Product, Design, and Engineering, review PRs, and own releases with nightly builds for QA, while delivering high-quality experiences for millions of users.

The role emphasizes strategic thinking, fast-paced delivery, and a strong focus on Kotlin, Android UI/UX, tests, and scalable

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 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 experience

Android components

Android app experience

Product design intuition

Android UI/UX

Testing

Self-drive

Kotlin

Kotlin Coroutines

Kotlin Flow

Dagger 2

MVVM

Clean Architecture

Background Services

Music Player Service

Android Animations

Jetpack Navigation

JUnit

Tools

Kotlin

Kotlin Coroutines

Kotlin Flow

Jetpack Navigation

Dagger 2

Room

Custom Views

Canvas & Paint

Jetpack Compose

JUnit

Job description

Speechify, a 100% distributed company, is seeking a Senior Android Engineer to lead major Android features, shape the team’s direction, and improve reliability across key components. You’ll collaborate with Product, Design, and Engineering, review PRs, and own releases with nightly builds for QA, while delivering high-quality experiences for millions of users.

The role emphasizes strategic thinking, fast-paced delivery, and a strong focus on Kotlin, Android UI/UX, tests, and scalable