Senior Android Tech Lead — Core Product & UX

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

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salaries

Stock options

Job summary

Speechify is seeking a Senior Android Engineer to support the growing Android user base and drive new projects in a 100% distributed company. You will own major features, shape the Android team's future, and collaborate with Product, Design and Engineering to deliver high quality experiences.

Ideal candidates have 5+ years of Android software engineering, strong Kotlin expertise, and a passion for UI/UX and testing. Join a fast-moving, remote-first culture at Speechify.

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 approach writing tests.
• Self-drive to improve the app and codebase beyond the spec.
• Kotlin, Kotlin Coroutines, Kotlin Flow, Dagger 2, MVVM, Clean Architecture, Jetpack components, JUnit.

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 software engineering

Android components familiarity

Experience building Android apps

Product design intuition

User empathy

Testing mindset

Self-driven

Excellent communication

Collaboration

Problem solving

Tools

Kotlin

Kotlin Coroutines

Kotlin Flow

Jetpack Navigation

Dagger 2

Room

Custom Views/Canvas & Paint

Jetpack Compose

JUnit

MVVM

Clean Architecture

Android Animations

Job description

Speechify is seeking a Senior Android Engineer to support the growing Android user base and drive new projects in a 100% distributed company. You will own major features, shape the Android team's future, and collaborate with Product, Design and Engineering to deliver high quality experiences.

Ideal candidates have 5+ years of Android software engineering, strong Kotlin expertise, and a passion for UI/UX and testing. Join a fast-moving, remote-first culture at Speechify.