Senior Android Tech Lead — Core Product & UX

Speechify; City of Syracuse (NY); Remote; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Speechify is seeking a Senior Android Engineer to lead major features for the Android app and help shape the direction of the Android team. You will own releases, ensure quality, and work with Product, Design, and Engineering to deliver excellent user experiences.

The role emphasizes strategic thinking, fast-paced execution, and a passion for building delightful user experiences. This is a 100% distributed role with a strong focus on performance and reliability.

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

Kotlin

Kotlin Coroutines

Kotlin Flow

Jetpack Navigation

Dagger 2

MVVM

Clean Architecture

Background Services

Music Player Service

Android Animations

Jetpack Compose

JUnit tests

Android UI/UX

Testing

Tools

Android Studio

Git

Job description

Speechify is seeking a Senior Android Engineer to lead major features for the Android app and help shape the direction of the Android team. You will own releases, ensure quality, and work with Product, Design, and Engineering to deliver excellent user experiences.

The role emphasizes strategic thinking, fast-paced execution, and a passion for building delightful user experiences. This is a 100% distributed role with a strong focus on performance and reliability.