Senior Android Tech Lead — Core Product

Speechify; College Park (MD); On-site; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Stock options

Flexible working style

Asynchronous culture

Job summary

Speechify, a leading text-to-speech company, seeks a Tech Lead for Android Core Product in College Park, MD. You will own major features, shape the Android team's future, and ensure reliable, high-quality user experiences across the app.

Join a fast-paced, distributed culture with a quick interview process. You will collaborate with Design, Product and Engineering to deliver features, nightly builds for QA, and mentor teammates to raise the bar for performance and 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 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.
• User oriented problem solving approach.
• Driven with continuous feedback from leaders.

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 discussions across Product, Design, Engineering.
• Review pull requests and support teammates.
• Handle critical issues or unexpected challenges.

Skills

5+ years software engineering

Android components

Product design intuition

UI/UX innovation

Testing mindset

Codebase improvement

Kotlin/Coroutines/Flow/Dagger

MVVM/Clean Architecture

Continuous feedback

Tools

Kotlin

Kotlin Coroutines

Kotlin Flow

Jetpack Navigation

Dagger 2

Room

Jetpack Compose

JUnit

Job description

Speechify, a leading text-to-speech company, seeks a Tech Lead for Android Core Product in College Park, MD. You will own major features, shape the Android team's future, and ensure reliable, high-quality user experiences across the app.

Join a fast-paced, distributed culture with a quick interview process. You will collaborate with Design, Product and Engineering to deliver features, nightly builds for QA, and mentor teammates to raise the bar for performance and UX.