Senior Android Tech Lead – Core Product

Speechify; Frisco, Northern (TX, KY); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Speechify is seeking a Senior Android Engineer to lead major features for the Android app, collaborating with design to deliver high-quality experiences at scale.

You will help shape the Android team's direction, own reliability metrics, and work with Product and Engineering across a distributed organization. The role emphasizes fast delivery, strong testing, and user-centric UI/UX improvements.

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 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.

Responsibilities

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

Skills

Software engineering

Android knowledge

Product design intuition

User empathy

Testing mindset

Tools

Kotlin

Kotlin Coroutines

Kotlin Flow

Dagger 2

MVVM

Jetpack Navigation

JUnit

Job description

Speechify is seeking a Senior Android Engineer to lead major features for the Android app, collaborating with design to deliver high-quality experiences at scale.

You will help shape the Android team's direction, own reliability metrics, and work with Product and Engineering across a distributed organization. The role emphasizes fast delivery, strong testing, and user-centric UI/UX improvements.