Senior Android Tech Lead, Core Product (Remote)

Speechify; Houston, Northern (TX, KY); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Stock options

Fully distributed team

Job summary

Speechify is seeking a Tech Lead for Android Core Product in Houston, TX. The role focuses on leading major Android features, shaping the Android team's direction, and delivering high-quality user experiences for speech-enabled products used by millions.

You will collaborate with design, product, and engineering to ensure robust, test-driven development and reliable releases, while promoting an async culture in a fully distributed company.

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.
• 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

Android development

UI/UX mindset

Testing mindset

Self-motivation

Team collaboration

Tools

Kotlin

Kotlin Coroutines

Kotlin Flow

Dagger 2

MVVM

Jetpack Navigation

JUnit

Room

Jetpack Compose

Job description

Speechify is seeking a Tech Lead for Android Core Product in Houston, TX. The role focuses on leading major Android features, shaping the Android team's direction, and delivering high-quality user experiences for speech-enabled products used by millions.

You will collaborate with design, product, and engineering to ensure robust, test-driven development and reliable releases, while promoting an async culture in a fully distributed company.