Senior Android Lead - Core Product & UX

Speechify; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salaries

Asynchronous culture

Friendly, laid-back atmosphere

Job summary

Speechify, a leading text-to-speech platform, seeks a Senior Android Engineer to drive major features and lead the Android team. You will own end-to-end feature development, collaborate with design and product, and deliver high-quality user experiences for millions of global users.

We value strategic thinking, fast-paced execution, and passion for great UX. This distributed company offers competitive salaries, autonomy, and a chance to shape a transformative AI-audio product.

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

• 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 discussions across Product, Design, and Engineering.
• Review pull requests and support teammates.
• Handle critical issues or unexpected challenges.
• Take ownership of feature releases and provide nightly builds for QA.

Skills

Software engineering experience

Android components

Kotlin

Kotlin Coroutines

Kotlin Flow

Dagger 2

MVVM

Jetpack Navigation

JUnit testing

UI/UX design sensibility

Testing awareness

Self-motivation

Excellent communication skills

User-centered problem solving

Tools

Jetpack Compose

Room

Android Studio

Git

CI/CD

Job description

Speechify, a leading text-to-speech platform, seeks a Senior Android Engineer to drive major features and lead the Android team. You will own end-to-end feature development, collaborate with design and product, and deliver high-quality user experiences for millions of global users.

We value strategic thinking, fast-paced execution, and passion for great UX. This distributed company offers competitive salaries, autonomy, and a chance to shape a transformative AI-audio product.