Senior Android Tech Lead – Core Product & UX

Speechify; Kansas City (MO); Remote; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salaries

Stock options

Flexible, asynchronous culture

Very generous bonus

Job summary

Speechify is seeking a Tech Lead, Android Core Product in Kansas City, MO. You will own major Android features, shape the Android team's future, and ensure reliability while collaborating with Product, Design, and Engineering.

Ideal candidates have strong Kotlin and Android experience, a passion for user-centric design, and the ability to lead rapid technical decisions in a fast-paced, remote-first environment.

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

5+ years

Android components

Kotlin

Kotlin Coroutines

Kotlin Flow

Dagger 2

MVVM

Clean Architecture

Background Services

Music Player Service

Android Animations

Jetpack Navigation

JUnit tests

User empathy

Tools

Kotlin

Kotlin Coroutines

Kotlin Flow

Jetpack Navigation

Dagger 2

Room

Jetpack Compose

JUnit

Job description

Speechify is seeking a Tech Lead, Android Core Product in Kansas City, MO. You will own major Android features, shape the Android team's future, and ensure reliability while collaborating with Product, Design, and Engineering.

Ideal candidates have strong Kotlin and Android experience, a passion for user-centric design, and the ability to lead rapid technical decisions in a fast-paced, remote-first environment.