Senior Android Lead - Core Product & UX

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

Job summary

Speechify, a fully remote company, is seeking a Senior Android Engineer to drive feature ownership across the Android app and lead our mobile engineering efforts. You will work with design, product, and engineering teams to ship high-quality features, improve reliability, and shape the Android roadmap.

The role requires deep Kotlin expertise, Android component familiarity, and a strong focus on unit tests and UI/UX excellence.

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 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

• 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

Android experience

Kotlin

UI/UX

Testing mindset

Communication

Self-driven

Leadership potential

Problem solving

Tools

Kotlin

Kotlin Coroutines

Kotlin Flow

Jetpack Navigation

Dagger 2

Room

Custom Views Canvas & Paint

Jetpack Compose

JUnit

Job description

Speechify, a fully remote company, is seeking a Senior Android Engineer to drive feature ownership across the Android app and lead our mobile engineering efforts. You will work with design, product, and engineering teams to ship high-quality features, improve reliability, and shape the Android roadmap.

The role requires deep Kotlin expertise, Android component familiarity, and a strong focus on unit tests and UI/UX excellence.