Senior Android Lead: Core Product & UX Impact

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

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salaries

Stock options

Asynchronous culture

Remote-friendly / distributed team

Job summary

Speechify is seeking a Senior Android Engineer to help grow our widely used Android app and ensure top-notch user experiences. You’ll own major features, work with design, and help shape the Android team's future in a fast-paced, fully distributed environment.

You should have 5+ years of Android development, strong Kotlin and Jetpack skills, and a passion for tests and reliability. Join a global remote team building AI-powered reading tools for millions of users.

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
• Experience building, maintaining, or otherwise contributing to open source projects in Android
• Experience with iOS, Web or NodeJS

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 development

Kotlin

Jetpack components

MVVM architecture

Unit testing

UI/UX focus

Open source experience

Tools

Dagger 2

Room

Jetpack Compose

JUnit

Job description

Speechify is seeking a Senior Android Engineer to help grow our widely used Android app and ensure top-notch user experiences. You’ll own major features, work with design, and help shape the Android team's future in a fast-paced, fully distributed environment.

You should have 5+ years of Android development, strong Kotlin and Jetpack skills, and a passion for tests and reliability. Join a global remote team building AI-powered reading tools for millions of users.