Senior Android Tech Lead — Core Product

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

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Stock options

Bonus opportunities

Job summary

Speechify, a global distributed company, seeks a Senior Android Engineer to own major features and shape the Android team’s future. You’ll deliver high-quality features, ensure reliability, review PRs, and collaborate with Product, Design, and Engineering to push the product forward.

Ideal candidates have 5+ years of software engineering experience, strong Kotlin, MVVM and Android UI/UX instincts, and a passion for high-quality tests and user-friendly experiences.

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 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
• Excellent communication skills
• User oriented problem solving approach
• Driven with continuous feedback from leaders

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

Job description

Speechify, a global distributed company, seeks a Senior Android Engineer to own major features and shape the Android team’s future. You’ll deliver high-quality features, ensure reliability, review PRs, and collaborate with Product, Design, and Engineering to push the product forward.

Ideal candidates have 5+ years of software engineering experience, strong Kotlin, MVVM and Android UI/UX instincts, and a passion for high-quality tests and user-friendly experiences.