Senior Android Tech Lead — Core Product & UX

Speechify; Providence (RI); Remote; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Speechify is seeking a Tech Lead to drive Android core products in a fast-growing, fully distributed environment. You’ll own major features, shape the Android team’s future, and ensure reliability while collaborating with Product, Design, and Engineering. A strong focus on UX and rigorous testing will guide delivery.

The candidate thrives in a fast-paced, leadership-driven setting, delivering high-quality code and nightly builds for QA. Senior, strategic, and hands-on leadership is expected.

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 write them.
• Self-drive to improve the app and codebase beyond the spec.
• Strong Kotlin, Coroutines, Flow, Dagger 2, MVVM, Clean Architecture, Background Services, Music Player Service, Android Animations, Jetpack Navigation, and JUnit experience.

Responsibilities

• Owning major features and work with design to deliver high-quality features.
• Shape the future of the 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

5+ years experience

Android components

Android app development

Kotlin

Kotlin Coroutines

Kotlin Flow

Dagger 2

MVVM

Clean Architecture

Jetpack Navigation

JUnit tests

UI/UX design

Tools

Open source contribution (Android)

iOS / Web / NodeJS (bonus)

Job description

Speechify is seeking a Tech Lead to drive Android core products in a fast-growing, fully distributed environment. You’ll own major features, shape the Android team’s future, and ensure reliability while collaborating with Product, Design, and Engineering. A strong focus on UX and rigorous testing will guide delivery.

The candidate thrives in a fast-paced, leadership-driven setting, delivering high-quality code and nightly builds for QA. Senior, strategic, and hands-on leadership is expected.