Senior Android Lead: Core Product & UX Innovation

Speechify; Des Moines (IA); Remote; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Speechify, a fully distributed company, is seeking a Senior Android Engineer to lead major Android features, shape the team’s direction, and improve reliability across the app. You will collaborate with design, product, and other engineers to deliver high-quality user experiences for millions of readers.

The role emphasizes Kotlin fluency, MVVM architecture, and strong testing practices, with ownership of releases and nightly builds for QA.

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 beyond the spec.

Responsibilities

• Owning major features and working closely with our design team - take ownership of features inside the app and deliver 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 experience

Android components

Product design

UI/UX innovation

Testing mindset

Tools

Kotlin

Kotlin Coroutines

Kotlin Flow

Dagger 2

MVVM

Jetpack Navigation

JUnit

Jetpack Compose

Room

Android Animations

Job description

Speechify, a fully distributed company, is seeking a Senior Android Engineer to lead major Android features, shape the team’s direction, and improve reliability across the app. You will collaborate with design, product, and other engineers to deliver high-quality user experiences for millions of readers.

The role emphasizes Kotlin fluency, MVVM architecture, and strong testing practices, with ownership of releases and nightly builds for QA.