Senior Android Lead for Core Product

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

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Stock options

Fully distributed team

Flexible environment

Job summary

Speechify is a 100% distributed company making reading accessible through text-to-speech. We’re seeking a Senior Android Engineer to help grow our Android app and shape its future. This role focuses on delivering high-quality features with speed and clarity across devices.

You’ll own features, collaborate with Product and Design, and improve reliability using Kotlin, MVVM, Jetpack, and robust testing. Join a fast-moving team building a life-changing product.

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

Tools

Kotlin

Coroutines

Kotlin Flow

Jetpack Navigation

Dagger 2

MVVM

Clean Architecture

JUnit

Android UI/UX

Testing

Room

Jetpack Compose

Android Studio

Job description

Speechify is a 100% distributed company making reading accessible through text-to-speech. We’re seeking a Senior Android Engineer to help grow our Android app and shape its future. This role focuses on delivering high-quality features with speed and clarity across devices.

You’ll own features, collaborate with Product and Design, and improve reliability using Kotlin, MVVM, Jetpack, and robust testing. Join a fast-moving team building a life-changing product.