Senior Android Lead: Core Product & UX Architect

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

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Stock options

Remote work

Asynchronous culture

Impactful product

Job summary

Speechify is seeking a Senior Android Engineer to own major features, shape our Android roadmap, and improve reliability across the product. You will collaborate with design and product teams, review PRs, and address critical issues while delivering nightly builds for QA.

We value strategic thinkers who ship fast and delight users with strong UI/UX. Our distributed team works asynchronously with no fixed office, emphasizing ownership, communication, and fast execution.

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 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

5+ years exp

Android components

Android app exp

Kotlin

Kotlin Coroutines

Kotlin Flow

Dagger 2

MVVM

Jetpack Navigation

JUnit tests

UI/UX design

Testing mindset

Tools

Android Studio

Git

Job description

Speechify is seeking a Senior Android Engineer to own major features, shape our Android roadmap, and improve reliability across the product. You will collaborate with design and product teams, review PRs, and address critical issues while delivering nightly builds for QA.

We value strategic thinkers who ship fast and delight users with strong UI/UX. Our distributed team works asynchronously with no fixed office, emphasizing ownership, communication, and fast execution.