Senior Android Tech Lead – Core Product (Remote)

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

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Stock options

Asynchronous culture

Job summary

Speechify is seeking a Senior Android Engineer to own major features, help shape the Android team, and deliver reliable, high-quality work across its distributed Android apps. You will collaborate with Product, Design, and Engineering to push the product forward and release features with confidence.

The ideal candidate thrives in fast-paced environments, has strong Kotlin and Android UI/UX skills, and applies test-driven thinking to maintain quality as the user base grows.

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 tests and how to write them.
• Self-drive to improve the app and codebase beyond the spec.
• Rock solid experience with Kotlin, Coroutines, Flow, Dagger 2, MVVM, Jetpack Navigation, JUnit.
• Excellent communication skills.
• User-oriented problem solving.

Responsibilities

• Owning major features and delivering high quality features.
• Shape the future of our Android team.
• Own, maintain and improve reliability metrics for key features.
• Participate in discussions with Product, Design, 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

Kotlin

Kotlin Coroutines

Kotlin Flow

Jetpack Navigation

Dagger 2

MVVM

Android UI/UX

JUnit

Android components

Communication

Tools

Android Studio

Git

Job description

Speechify is seeking a Senior Android Engineer to own major features, help shape the Android team, and deliver reliable, high-quality work across its distributed Android apps. You will collaborate with Product, Design, and Engineering to push the product forward and release features with confidence.

The ideal candidate thrives in fast-paced environments, has strong Kotlin and Android UI/UX skills, and applies test-driven thinking to maintain quality as the user base grows.