Senior Android Tech Lead: Core Product, Remote

Speechify; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

100% distributed team

Asynchronous culture

Life-changing product

Impactful work

Job summary

Speechify, a distributed text-to-speech company, is seeking an experienced Senior Android Engineer to lead major features, shape the Android team’s direction, and ensure reliable, high-quality user experiences across Android apps. You’ll collaborate with design, product, and engineering to deliver impactful features and nightly QA builds.

The ideal candidate has 5+ years of Android software experience, strong Kotlin expertise, and a passion for accessible, user-focused design.

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

• 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

Kotlin

Kotlin Coroutines

Kotlin Flow

MVVM

Dagger 2

Jetpack Navigation

Unit testing

UI/UX design

Communication skills

Android components

Tools

Room

Jetpack Compose

Custom Views

Canvas & Paint

JUnit

Job description

Speechify, a distributed text-to-speech company, is seeking an experienced Senior Android Engineer to lead major features, shape the Android team’s direction, and ensure reliable, high-quality user experiences across Android apps. You’ll collaborate with design, product, and engineering to deliver impactful features and nightly QA builds.

The ideal candidate has 5+ years of Android software experience, strong Kotlin expertise, and a passion for accessible, user-focused design.