Senior Android Lead for Core Product & UX

Speechify; Cincinnati (OH); Remote; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salaries

Friendly and laid-back atmosphere

Asynchronous culture

Job summary

Speechify is seeking a Tech Lead for Android Core Product in Cincinnati, OH. This fully distributed role focuses on owning key features, delivering high-quality experiences, and driving the Android strategy with a strong design-partner approach.

The position emphasizes ownership, collaboration across Product/Design/Engineering, and rapid, reliable releases in a fast-paced, remote environment.

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 tests and how to approach writing tests.
• Self-drive to improve the app and codebase beyond 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.
• 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

Kotlin

Kotlin Coroutines

Kotlin Flow

Dagger 2

MVVM

Clean Architecture

Background Services

Music Player Service

Android Animations

Jetpack Navigation

JUnit

Android components

UI/UX design

Tests, test-writing

Continuous feedback

Job description

Speechify is seeking a Tech Lead for Android Core Product in Cincinnati, OH. This fully distributed role focuses on owning key features, delivering high-quality experiences, and driving the Android strategy with a strong design-partner approach.

The position emphasizes ownership, collaboration across Product/Design/Engineering, and rapid, reliable releases in a fast-paced, remote environment.