Senior Android Tech Lead – Core Product (Remote)

Speechify; Hartford (CT); Remote; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Speechify is seeking a Tech Lead for Android Core Product to guide the growth of our fast-growing Android app in Hartford, CT. You’ll own major features, shape the Android team, and ensure reliable, high-quality experiences for millions of users.

You excel at strategic thinking, fast delivery, and cross-functional collaboration, with strong Kotlin, MVVM, and Jetpack skills. If you ship delightful UI and robust tests while advancing UX for accessibility, you’ll thrive in our distributed,

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

5+ years experience

Android components

Product design intuition

User empathy

Testing mindset

Tools

Kotlin

Kotlin Coroutines

Kotlin Flow

Jetpack Navigation

Dagger 2

Room

Jetpack Compose

JUnit

MVVM

Job description

Speechify is seeking a Tech Lead for Android Core Product to guide the growth of our fast-growing Android app in Hartford, CT. You’ll own major features, shape the Android team, and ensure reliable, high-quality experiences for millions of users.

You excel at strategic thinking, fast delivery, and cross-functional collaboration, with strong Kotlin, MVVM, and Jetpack skills. If you ship delightful UI and robust tests while advancing UX for accessibility, you’ll thrive in our distributed,