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

Flexible remote work

Asynchronous culture

Job summary

Speechify, a leading text-to-speech platform, seeks a Senior Android Engineer to own features, shape the Android team's future, and ensure reliable releases across a 100% distributed environment. You will contribute to high-quality UI/UX, collaborate with Product and Design, and drive tests and performance improvements for millions of users.

The ideal candidate has 5+ years of Android experience, deep Kotlin expertise, and a passion for building accessible, engaging apps.

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
• Excellent communication skills
• User oriented problem solving approach
• Driven with continuous feedback from leaders

Responsibilities

• Owning major features and working closely with our design team
• 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

Kotlin

Kotlin Coroutines

Kotlin Flow

Jetpack Navigation

Dagger 2

MVVM

Clean Architecture

Background Services

Music Player Service

Android Animations

Jetpack Compose

JUnit

Android components

UI/UX intuition

Tools

Room

Custom Views

Canvas & Paint

Job description

Speechify, a leading text-to-speech platform, seeks a Senior Android Engineer to own features, shape the Android team's future, and ensure reliable releases across a 100% distributed environment. You will contribute to high-quality UI/UX, collaborate with Product and Design, and drive tests and performance improvements for millions of users.

The ideal candidate has 5+ years of Android experience, deep Kotlin expertise, and a passion for building accessible, engaging apps.