Senior Android Tech Lead, Core Product

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

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salaries

Stock options

Asynchronous culture

Life-changing product

Job summary

Speechify, a fast-growing, distributed company, is seeking a Senior Android Engineer to own major features in the Android app and help shape the future of our Android team.

You will deliver high-quality user experiences, maintain reliable features, review pull requests, and collaborate with Product, Design, and Engineering in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment that rewards initiative and clear communication.

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.
• 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 Android features.
• Shape the future of the Android team.
• Own, maintain and improve reliability metrics for key features.
• Participate in discussions across Product, Design, and Engineering.
• Review pull requests and support teammates.
• Handle critical issues or unexpected challenges.
• Take ownership of feature releases and provide nightly builds for QA.

Skills

Android development

Kotlin

MVVM

Kotlin Coroutines

Jetpack Compose

Dagger 2

JUnit tests

Android UI/UX

Code reviews

Communication

Tools

JUnit

Dagger 2

Room

Jetpack Navigation

Job description

Speechify, a fast-growing, distributed company, is seeking a Senior Android Engineer to own major features in the Android app and help shape the future of our Android team.

You will deliver high-quality user experiences, maintain reliable features, review pull requests, and collaborate with Product, Design, and Engineering in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment that rewards initiative and clear communication.