Senior Android Lead — Core Product & UX (Remote)

Speechify; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salaries

Equity / stock options

Fully remote workflow

Flexible hours

Career growth opportunities

Job summary

Speechify is seeking a Senior Android Engineer to own major features, shape the Android team's future, and deliver high quality user experiences in a fast-paced, distributed environment.

You will collaborate with Product, Design and Engineering, review pull requests, handle critical issues, and release features with nightly builds for QA. The role demands 5+ years of Android experience and strong Kotlin / Jetpack skills.

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.

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 software engineering

Android components

Android app development

Product design intuition

UI/UX improvement

Tests and quality

Kotlin

Kotlin Coroutines

Kotlin Flow

Dagger 2

MVVM

Clean Architecture

Background Services

Music Player Service

Android Animations

Jetpack Navigation

JUnit tests

Excellent communication

User oriented problem solving

Continuous feedback from leaders

Tools

Kotlin

Kotlin Coroutines

Kotlin Flow

Jetpack Navigation

Dagger 2

Room

Custom Views, Canvas & Paint

Jetpack Compose

JUnit

Job description

Speechify is seeking a Senior Android Engineer to own major features, shape the Android team's future, and deliver high quality user experiences in a fast-paced, distributed environment.

You will collaborate with Product, Design and Engineering, review pull requests, handle critical issues, and release features with nightly builds for QA. The role demands 5+ years of Android experience and strong Kotlin / Jetpack skills.