Senior Android Tech Lead — Core Product

Speechify; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

Competitive salary

Remote-friendly distribution

Asynchronous culture

Job summary

Speechify is seeking a Senior Android Engineer to support its large Android user base and drive new projects in a fast-paced, distributed environment. You will own major features, collaborate with Product and Design, and ensure high-quality delivery across the Android stack.

The role emphasizes strategic thinking, product decisions, and building exceptional user experiences, with interviews conducted quickly and a flat organization that rewards leadership through technical excellence.

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

Responsibilities

• Owning major features and working closely with our design team - take ownership of features inside the app and become responsible of delivering high quality features
• Shape the future of our Android team
• Own, maintain and improve reliability metrics for key features
• Participate in discussions across different teams - Product, Design, Engineering
• 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

Background Services

Music Player Service

Android Animations

Jetpack Navigation

JUnit tests

Tools

Android components

Job description

Speechify is seeking a Senior Android Engineer to support its large Android user base and drive new projects in a fast-paced, distributed environment. You will own major features, collaborate with Product and Design, and ensure high-quality delivery across the Android stack.

The role emphasizes strategic thinking, product decisions, and building exceptional user experiences, with interviews conducted quickly and a flat organization that rewards leadership through technical excellence.