Senior Android Lead — Shape the Core App & UX

Speechify; Denver (CO); Remote; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fast-growing environment

Entrepreneurial team

Autonomous work culture

Big impact

Competitive salary

Diverse & inclusive

Stock + bonus

Job summary

Speechify is seeking a Senior Android Engineer to own major features, shape and guide the Android team, and ensure reliability across key features. You will collaborate with Product, Design, and Engineering to deliver high-quality experiences, review code, and address critical issues while releasing features with nightly builds for QA.

The ideal candidate has 5+ years of software engineering experience, strong Kotlin and Android skills, focus on UI/UX, and a passion for testing and 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

Skills

Android architecture

UI/UX design

Testing mindset

Communication

Self-motivated

Tools

Kotlin

Kotlin Coroutines

Kotlin Flow

Jetpack Navigation

Dagger 2

Room

Custom Views, Canvas & Paint

Jetpack Compose

JUnit

Job description

Speechify is seeking a Senior Android Engineer to own major features, shape and guide the Android team, and ensure reliability across key features. You will collaborate with Product, Design, and Engineering to deliver high-quality experiences, review code, and address critical issues while releasing features with nightly builds for QA.

The ideal candidate has 5+ years of software engineering experience, strong Kotlin and Android skills, focus on UI/UX, and a passion for testing and quality.