Senior Android Tech Lead – Core Product

Speechify; New Orleans (LA); Remote; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Stock options

Asynchronous culture

Impactful work

Job summary

Speechify, a distributed company with no offices, seeks a Tech Lead for Android Core Product in New Orleans. You will own major features, work with design, and drive the Android roadmap while maintaining reliability and performance across Kotlin-based stacks.

The role emphasizes leadership, fast execution, and user-centric product decisions. The team values autonomy, strong communication, and a bias for action, with an opportunity to impact millions of users who rely on Speechify's

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 Android UI/UX beyond the basics.
• Tests-first mindset and robust testing practices.
• Self-motivated with a track record of improving the codebase.

Responsibilities

• Own major features and collaborate with design to deliver high-quality additions.
• Shape the future of the Android team.
• Maintain and improve reliability metrics for key features.
• Participate in cross-team discussions (Product, Design, Engineering).
• Review pull requests and support teammates.
• Handle critical issues and adapt to challenges.
• Own feature releases and provide nightly builds for QA.

Skills

Software engineering

Android knowledge

Team leadership

Tools

Kotlin

Kotlin Coroutines

Kotlin Flow

Dagger 2

MVVM

Jetpack Navigation

Room

Jetpack Compose

JUnit

Job description

Speechify, a distributed company with no offices, seeks a Tech Lead for Android Core Product in New Orleans. You will own major features, work with design, and drive the Android roadmap while maintaining reliability and performance across Kotlin-based stacks.

The role emphasizes leadership, fast execution, and user-centric product decisions. The team values autonomy, strong communication, and a bias for action, with an opportunity to impact millions of users who rely on Speechify's