Senior Android Lead — Core Product & UX

Speechify Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Asynchronous culture

Impactful product work

Diverse and inclusive workplace

Job summary

Speechify Inc. is seeking a Senior Android Engineer to support the rapidly growing Android app. You will own major features, shape the direction of the Android team, and collaborate across Product, Design and Engineering to deliver high quality user experiences.

The role emphasizes building reliable systems, writing tests, and releasing features with nightly builds for QA. Join a 100% distributed team with a fast-paced, impact-driven culture and opportunities to mentor others.

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.

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

Kotlin

Kotlin Coroutines

Kotlin Flow

Jetpack Navigation

Dagger 2

MVVM

Clean Architecture

Background Services

Music Player Service

Android Animations

Jetpack Compose

JUnit tests

Excellent communication

User empathy

Continuous feedback

Tools

Android components

Job description

Speechify Inc. is seeking a Senior Android Engineer to support the rapidly growing Android app. You will own major features, shape the direction of the Android team, and collaborate across Product, Design and Engineering to deliver high quality user experiences.

The role emphasizes building reliable systems, writing tests, and releasing features with nightly builds for QA. Join a 100% distributed team with a fast-paced, impact-driven culture and opportunities to mentor others.