Senior Android Tech Lead – Core Product

Speechify; United States; Remote; USD 30,000 - 65,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

Flexible hours

Impactful product

Job summary

Speechify, a distributed, poly-platform text-to-speech company, seeks a Senior Android Engineer to own major features, shape the Android roadmap, and ensure high-quality releases. You’ll collaborate with Product, Design, and Backend teams to craft reliable experiences for millions of users.

Ideal candidates have 5+ years in software engineering, strong Kotlin experience, and a deep passion for Android UI/UX.

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 beyond the spec.
• Proficient 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 the 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 with composure.
• Take ownership of feature releases and provide nightly builds for QA.

Skills

5+ years experience

Kotlin

Kotlin Coroutines

Kotlin Flow

Dagger 2

MVVM

Clean Architecture

Jetpack Navigation

JUnit

Android UI/UX

Communication skills

Tools

Android Studio

Jetpack Compose

Room

Custom Views/Canvas & Paint

Git

Job description

Speechify, a distributed, poly-platform text-to-speech company, seeks a Senior Android Engineer to own major features, shape the Android roadmap, and ensure high-quality releases. You’ll collaborate with Product, Design, and Backend teams to craft reliable experiences for millions of users.

Ideal candidates have 5+ years in software engineering, strong Kotlin experience, and a deep passion for Android UI/UX.