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

Asynchronous culture

Flat organization

Job summary

Speechify is seeking a Senior Android Engineer to advance our Android app and help shape the future of our mobile product. This role rewards strategic thinking, fast-paced delivery, and a passion for creating delightful user experiences for millions of users in a distributed team.

You will own major features, drive Android UI/UX improvements, and collaborate across Product, Design, and Engineering to ensure reliable releases and strong test coverage.

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.
• Driven with continuous feedback from leaders.

Responsibilities

• Owning major features and working closely with our design team - deliver high-quality features within the app.
• Shape the future of our 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

Android components

Kotlin

Kotlin Coroutines

Kotlin Flow

Dagger 2

MVVM

Jetpack Navigation

JUnit tests

Tools

Room

Job description

Speechify is seeking a Senior Android Engineer to advance our Android app and help shape the future of our mobile product. This role rewards strategic thinking, fast-paced delivery, and a passion for creating delightful user experiences for millions of users in a distributed team.

You will own major features, drive Android UI/UX improvements, and collaborate across Product, Design, and Engineering to ensure reliable releases and strong test coverage.