Senior Android Lead — Core Product & UX

Speechify; United States; Remote; USD 30,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salaries

Flexible work culture

Stock options

Job summary

Speechify is seeking a Senior Android Engineer to support a growing user base and develop exciting Android projects. You’ll own features, drive UI/UX improvements, and influence the Android roadmap while delivering robust, high-quality code in a fast-paced, distributed environment.

The role emphasizes strategic thinking, strong communication, and a passion for building delightful user experiences. Join a flat, results-driven team with a focus on asynchronous collaboration and impact.

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 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 work closely with design to deliver high quality features.
• Shape the future of the Android team.
• Own, maintain and improve reliability metrics for key features.
• Participate in cross-team discussions – Product, Design, Engineering.
• Review pull requests and support teammates.
• Handle critical issues and unexpected challenges.
• Take ownership of feature releases and provide nightly builds for QA.

Skills

Kotlin

Kotlin Coroutines

Kotlin Flow

Jetpack Navigation

Dagger 2

MVVM

Clean Architecture

Background Services

Music Player Service

Android Animations

Jetpack Compose

JUnit

Tools

Room

JUnit

Job description

Speechify is seeking a Senior Android Engineer to support a growing user base and develop exciting Android projects. You’ll own features, drive UI/UX improvements, and influence the Android roadmap while delivering robust, high-quality code in a fast-paced, distributed environment.

The role emphasizes strategic thinking, strong communication, and a passion for building delightful user experiences. Join a flat, results-driven team with a focus on asynchronous collaboration and impact.