Senior Android Tech Lead – Core Product & UX

Speechify; Columbus (OH); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus

Stock

Competitive salaries

Asynchronous culture

Job summary

Speechify is seeking a Tech Lead for Android Core Product in Columbus, OH to own major features and drive the Android roadmap. You will collaborate with design, product, and engineering to deliver high quality experiences for millions of users.

The ideal candidate has 5+ years of software engineering, deep Kotlin and Android expertise, and a track record of shipping reliable, well-tested apps. Join a fast-growing, distributed team building speech and AI-driven reading products.

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
• 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

Coroutines

Flow

Dagger 2

MVVM

Clean Architecture

Background Services

Music Player

Android Animations

Jetpack Navigation

JUnit

Job description

Speechify is seeking a Tech Lead for Android Core Product in Columbus, OH to own major features and drive the Android roadmap. You will collaborate with design, product, and engineering to deliver high quality experiences for millions of users.

The ideal candidate has 5+ years of software engineering, deep Kotlin and Android expertise, and a track record of shipping reliable, well-tested apps. Join a fast-growing, distributed team building speech and AI-driven reading products.