Senior Android Lead - Core Product & UX Champion

Speechify; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Flexible, asynchronous culture

Impactful work on learning differences

Job summary

Speechify is seeking a Senior Android Engineer to scale the Android app for millions of users across a 100% distributed team. You’ll own major features, collaborate with Design and Product, and deliver high-quality UX that delights users.

You’ll shape the Android roadmap, improve reliability, write tests, and mentor others while optimizing performance and accessibility. This fast-paced role rewards ownership, collaboration, and impact in the evolving space of AI-powered reading.

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.

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

Kotlin

MVVM

Unit testing

Code reviews

Performance optimization

UI/UX empathy

Tools

Dagger 2

Jetpack Compose

JUnit

Coroutines

Room

Navigation

Job description

Speechify is seeking a Senior Android Engineer to scale the Android app for millions of users across a 100% distributed team. You’ll own major features, collaborate with Design and Product, and deliver high-quality UX that delights users.

You’ll shape the Android roadmap, improve reliability, write tests, and mentor others while optimizing performance and accessibility. This fast-paced role rewards ownership, collaboration, and impact in the evolving space of AI-powered reading.