Senior Android Lead for Core Product & UX

Speechify; United States; Remote; USD 30,000 - 65,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salaries

Async culture

Fully distributed team

Job summary

Speechify is seeking a Senior Android Engineer to own features and shape our Android product across Android apps, the web, and integrations. You’ll work in a fully distributed team, making strategic technical decisions and delivering high-quality user experiences for millions of readers.

The role emphasizes Kotlin, Android UI/UX, testing, and collaboration with Product, Design, and Engineering. We value ownership, fast delivery, and strong communication in a remote, fast-growing 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 write them.
• Self-drive to improve app and codebase beyond the spec.
• Strong Kotlin, Kotlin Coroutines, Kotlin Flow, Dagger 2, MVVM, Clean Architecture, Background Services, Android Animations, Jetpack Navigation, JUnit tests.

Responsibilities

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

Skills

Android development

Kotlin

Android components

MVVM

Jetpack Compose

Kotlin Coroutines

Kotlin Flow

Dagger 2

Unit testing

UI/UX design

Communication

Problem solving

Tools

Android Studio

JUnit

Job description

Speechify is seeking a Senior Android Engineer to own features and shape our Android product across Android apps, the web, and integrations. You’ll work in a fully distributed team, making strategic technical decisions and delivering high-quality user experiences for millions of readers.

The role emphasizes Kotlin, Android UI/UX, testing, and collaboration with Product, Design, and Engineering. We value ownership, fast delivery, and strong communication in a remote, fast-growing environment.