Senior Android Lead - Core Product & UX Builder

Speechify; South Carolina; Remote; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salaries

Flexible asynchronous culture

Impactful work on AI/audio product

Remote, distributed team

Job summary

Speechify, the leading text-to-speech platform, is hiring a Senior Android Engineer to own major features in the Android app and shape the user experience for millions of readers. You’ll drive Kotlin-based development, mentor teammates, and collaborate with Design and Product to deliver high-quality, reliable features in a fast-paced, fully remote environment.

The role emphasizes testing, clean architecture, and scalable mobile experiences, with opportunities for impact on a transformative

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

• Own major features and deliver high quality features with the design team.
• Shape the future of 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

Android Animations

JUnit tests

UI/UX design

Tools

Room

Jetpack Compose

Music Player Service

Background Services

Canvas & Paint

Android Studio

Git

Job description

Speechify, the leading text-to-speech platform, is hiring a Senior Android Engineer to own major features in the Android app and shape the user experience for millions of readers. You’ll drive Kotlin-based development, mentor teammates, and collaborate with Design and Product to deliver high-quality, reliable features in a fast-paced, fully remote environment.

The role emphasizes testing, clean architecture, and scalable mobile experiences, with opportunities for impact on a transformative