Senior Android Lead – Shape the Speechify App

Speechify; Cary (NC); Remote; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully distributed team

Competitive salary

Asynchronous culture

Impactful work on learning differences

Job summary

Speechify is seeking a Senior Android Engineer to own major features, collaborate with design, and shape the Android roadmap. You will ensure high quality UI/UX, implement robust tests, and drive releases with rapid iterations in a fully distributed environment.

Ideal candidates have 5+ years of Android experience, strong Kotlin skills, and a passion for user-centric design. The role offers a highly autonomous, fast-paced setting with meaningful impact on millions of users.

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.

Responsibilities

• Own major features and ship high-quality results with design team.
• Shape the future of the Android team.
• Maintain and improve reliability metrics for key features.
• Collaborate across Product, Design, and Engineering.
• Review pull requests and support teammates.
• Handle critical issues and unexpected challenges.
• Own feature releases and provide nightly builds for QA.

Skills

5+ years experience

Android components

Android app development

Design empathy

Android UI/UX

Testing mindset

Self-motivation

Tools

Kotlin

Kotlin Coroutines

Kotlin Flow

Dagger 2

MVVM

Jetpack Navigation

JUnit

Room

Jetpack Compose

Android Animations

Job description

Speechify is seeking a Senior Android Engineer to own major features, collaborate with design, and shape the Android roadmap. You will ensure high quality UI/UX, implement robust tests, and drive releases with rapid iterations in a fully distributed environment.

Ideal candidates have 5+ years of Android experience, strong Kotlin skills, and a passion for user-centric design. The role offers a highly autonomous, fast-paced setting with meaningful impact on millions of users.