Senior Android Tech Lead, Core Product

Speechify; Milwaukee (WI); Remote; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fast-growing environment

Entrepreneurial team

Asynchronous culture

Life-changing product

Competitive salary

Stock options

Remote-friendly

Job summary

Speechify, a leading text-to-speech platform, is seeking a Senior Android Engineer to own key Android features, shape the team’s direction, and ensure high-quality, reliable experiences for millions of users. You’ll collaborate with design, product, and engineering to ship impactful updates in a fast-paced, distributed environment.

The role emphasizes product design sense, user empathy, and a strong Kotlin-based Android stack, including Jetpack, Dagger, and testing practices.

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 testing strategies.
• Self-drive to improve the app and codebase beyond 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 deliver high quality features.
• Shape the future of the Android team.
• Own, maintain and improve reliability metrics for key features.
• 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

Kotlin

Kotlin Coroutines

Kotlin Flow

Dagger 2

MVVM

Clean Architecture

Jetpack Navigation

JUnit

Android Components

Tools

Room

Jetpack Compose

Job description

Speechify, a leading text-to-speech platform, is seeking a Senior Android Engineer to own key Android features, shape the team’s direction, and ensure high-quality, reliable experiences for millions of users. You’ll collaborate with design, product, and engineering to ship impactful updates in a fast-paced, distributed environment.

The role emphasizes product design sense, user empathy, and a strong Kotlin-based Android stack, including Jetpack, Dagger, and testing practices.