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

Remote-friendly

Asynchronous culture

Impactful work

Job summary

Speechify, a leading text-to-speech platform, seeks a Senior Android Engineer to help grow our Android app used by millions. You’ll own major features, collaborate with design and product, and help push the boundaries of mobile UX.

We value fast-paced collaboration in a distributed team and encourage leadership through technical excellence. Ideal candidates have 5+ years of software engineering experience, strong Kotlin expertise, and a passion for great user experiences.

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

• Own major features and deliver 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 components

Kotlin

Kotlin Coroutines

Kotlin Flow

Jetpack Navigation

Dagger 2

MVVM

Clean Architecture

JUnit

UI/UX

Testing

Tools

Kotlin

Kotlin Coroutines

Kotlin Flow

Jetpack Navigation

Dagger 2

Room

Jetpack Compose

JUnit

Job description

Speechify, a leading text-to-speech platform, seeks a Senior Android Engineer to help grow our Android app used by millions. You’ll own major features, collaborate with design and product, and help push the boundaries of mobile UX.

We value fast-paced collaboration in a distributed team and encourage leadership through technical excellence. Ideal candidates have 5+ years of software engineering experience, strong Kotlin expertise, and a passion for great user experiences.