Senior Android Tech Lead, Core Product & UX

Speechify; United States; Remote; USD 30,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salaries

Friendly and laid-back atmosphere

Asynchronous culture

Impactful work in AI and audio

Life-changing product for learning

Job summary

Speechify in a distributed setup seeks an experienced Senior Android Engineer to own major features, collaborate with design, and ship high‑quality experiences for users across Android platforms.

The role requires strategic thinking, fast execution, and passion for building delightful UI/UX. We value leadership, clear communication, and a proactive approach to problem solving in a remote-first, fast-growing 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 tests and test-writing approach.
• Self-drive to improve the app and codebase beyond 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.

Responsibilities

• Owning major features and working closely with our design team - take ownership of features inside the app and deliver high quality features.
• Shape the future of our Android team.
• Own, maintain and improve reliability metrics for key features.
• Participate in discussions across Product, Design, 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 of software engineering

Android components

Experience building Android apps

Product design intuition

User empathy

Excellent communication skills

User-oriented problem solving

Tools

Kotlin

Kotlin Coroutines

Kotlin Flow

Dagger 2

MVVM

Jetpack Navigation

JUnit

Room

Jetpack Compose

Android Animations

Job description

Speechify in a distributed setup seeks an experienced Senior Android Engineer to own major features, collaborate with design, and ship high‑quality experiences for users across Android platforms.

The role requires strategic thinking, fast execution, and passion for building delightful UI/UX. We value leadership, clear communication, and a proactive approach to problem solving in a remote-first, fast-growing environment.