Senior Android Tech Lead — Core Product (Remote, Equity)

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

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Stock options

Flexible asynchronous culture

Impactful work

Job summary

Speechify seeks a Senior Android Engineer to own major features, shape the Android team, and drive reliable releases for a fast-moving product. You will collaborate with Product and Design to deliver great user experiences and lead testing and quality initiatives across modules.

The role emphasizes Kotlin, Coroutines, Flow, MVVM and modern Android architectures in a 100% distributed environment. Strong communication and proactive problem-solving are essential.

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 approach writing tests.
• Self-drive to improve the app and codebase beyond the spec.
• Proficient with Kotlin, Coroutines, Flow, Dagger 2, MVVM, Clean Architecture, Android Studio, JUnit.
• Excellent communication skills and user-focused problem solving.

Responsibilities

• Owning major features and collaborating with design for high-quality delivery.
• Shape the future of our Android team.
• Own, maintain and improve reliability metrics for key features.
• Participate in cross-team discussions (Product, Design, Engineering).
• Review pull requests and support teammates.
• Handle critical issues and unexpected challenges.
• Take ownership of feature releases and provide nightly builds for QA.

Skills

Kotlin

Kotlin Coroutines

Kotlin Flow

Dagger 2

MVVM

Jetpack Navigation

JUnit tests

Android Animations

Background Services

Music Player Service

Android UI/UX

Tools

Android Studio

Job description

Speechify seeks a Senior Android Engineer to own major features, shape the Android team, and drive reliable releases for a fast-moving product. You will collaborate with Product and Design to deliver great user experiences and lead testing and quality initiatives across modules.

The role emphasizes Kotlin, Coroutines, Flow, MVVM and modern Android architectures in a 100% distributed environment. Strong communication and proactive problem-solving are essential.