Senior Android Tech Lead – Core Product

Speechify; United States; Remote; USD 30,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salaries

Stock options

Flexible work hours

Asynchronous culture

Job summary

Speechify is seeking a Senior Android Engineer to support its rapidly growing Android user base and work on exciting projects that push the product forward.

The ideal candidate will think strategically in a fast-paced environment, be passionate about creating great user experiences, and have experience building robust Android apps with a focus on UI/UX. Speechify operates as a fully distributed team with no physical office and emphasizes asynchronous collaboration.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience.
• Experience building or contributing to an Android app.
• Product design intuition and user empathy.
• Drive to push the boundaries of Android UI/UX.
• Understanding of tests and how to write them.
• 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.
• Excellent communication skills
• User oriented problem solving approach
• Driven with continuous feedback from leaders

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 cross-team discussions (Product, Design, Engineering).
• Review pull requests and support teammates.
• Handle critical issues or unexpected challenges.
• Own feature releases and provide nightly builds for QA.

Skills

5+ years of software engineering

Excellent communication skills

Tools

Kotlin

Kotlin Coroutines

Kotlin Flow

Jetpack Navigation

Dagger 2

Room

Custom Views

Jetpack Compose

JUnit

Job description

Speechify is seeking a Senior Android Engineer to support its rapidly growing Android user base and work on exciting projects that push the product forward.

The ideal candidate will think strategically in a fast-paced environment, be passionate about creating great user experiences, and have experience building robust Android apps with a focus on UI/UX. Speechify operates as a fully distributed team with no physical office and emphasizes asynchronous collaboration.