Senior Android Lead for Core Product & UX

Speechify; Hartford (CT); Remote; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-friendly distribution

Stock options

Asynchronous culture

Job summary

Speechify is seeking a Senior Android Engineer to join a fully distributed team. You will own major features, shape the Android team's future, and improve reliability metrics across core products.

You’ll collaborate with Product, Design, and Engineering, review PRs, and handle critical issues while delivering nightly builds for QA. Expect a fast-paced, entrepreneurial culture with a focus on user-centric Android UI/UX.

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 above and beyond what's outlined in the spec.
• Kotlin, Coroutines, Flow, Dagger 2, MVVM, Clean Architecture, Background Services, Music Player Service, Android Animations, Jetpack Navigation, JUnit.

Responsibilities

• Own major features and work closely with design to deliver high-quality Android features.
• Shape the future of the Android team.
• Own, maintain and improve reliability metrics for key features.
• Participate in discussions across Product, Design, Engineering.
• Review pull requests, and support other teammates.
• Handle critical issues or unexpected challenges.
• Take ownership of feature releases and provide nightly builds for the QA team.

Skills

Android development

Kotlin

Kotlin Coroutines

Kotlin Flow

Dagger 2

MVVM

Jetpack Navigation

Unit testing

UI/UX for Android

Code reviews

Tools

Android Studio

Git

CI/CD

JUnit

Job description

Speechify is seeking a Senior Android Engineer to join a fully distributed team. You will own major features, shape the Android team's future, and improve reliability metrics across core products.

You’ll collaborate with Product, Design, and Engineering, review PRs, and handle critical issues while delivering nightly builds for QA. Expect a fast-paced, entrepreneurial culture with a focus on user-centric Android UI/UX.