Senior Android Tech Lead - Core Product & UX

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

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

Competitive salary

Distributed company culture

Job summary

Speechify is seeking a Senior Android Engineer to drive major features for its Android app and contribute to architectural decisions. You will work closely with Design and Product to ship high-quality experiences for millions of users.

You’ll shape the Android team, improve reliability, and lead feature releases while delivering robust tests and elegant UI/UX. This is a fully distributed role with competitive compensation.

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, Kotlin Coroutines, Kotlin Flow, Dagger 2, MVVM, Clean Architecture, Background Services, Music Player Service, Android Animations, Jetpack Navigation, JUnit experience.
• Excellent communication skills.
• User oriented problem solving approach.
• Driven with continuous feedback from leaders.

Responsibilities

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

Skills

5+ years software engineering

Android components

Android app development

Product design intuition

Testing

Kotlin

Kotlin Coroutines

Kotlin Flow

Dagger 2

MVVM

Clean Architecture

Background Services

Music Player Service

Android Animations

Jetpack Navigation

JUnit tests

Communication skills

User-centric problem solving

Continuous feedback

Tools

Kotlin

Kotlin Coroutines

Kotlin Flow

Jetpack Navigation

Dagger 2

Room

Jetpack Compose

JUnit

Job description

Speechify is seeking a Senior Android Engineer to drive major features for its Android app and contribute to architectural decisions. You will work closely with Design and Product to ship high-quality experiences for millions of users.

You’ll shape the Android team, improve reliability, and lead feature releases while delivering robust tests and elegant UI/UX. This is a fully distributed role with competitive compensation.