Senior Android Lead for Core Product & UX

Speechify; United States; Remote; USD 30,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salaries

Asynchronous culture

Friendly atmosphere

Job summary

Speechify, a distributed, no-office company, seeks a Senior Android Engineer to own features, shape the Android team, and improve reliability of key app features. You’ll collaborate with Product, Design, and Engineering, review PRs, and respond to critical issues while delivering nightly QA builds.

The ideal candidate has extensive Kotlin experience, a strong Android background, and a passion for UX that delights users and tests that ensure quality.

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

Job description

Speechify, a distributed, no-office company, seeks a Senior Android Engineer to own features, shape the Android team, and improve reliability of key app features. You’ll collaborate with Product, Design, and Engineering, review PRs, and respond to critical issues while delivering nightly QA builds.

The ideal candidate has extensive Kotlin experience, a strong Android background, and a passion for UX that delights users and tests that ensure quality.