Senior Android Tech Lead — Core Product & UX

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

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Stock options

Distributed team (no office)

Asynchronous culture

Job summary

Speechify is seeking a Senior Android Engineer to support the growing Android app user base and work on innovative projects. The role requires strategic thinking, fast-paced delivery, and a passion for crafting excellent user experiences.

We value leadership, strong technical skills, and a track record of delivering results in a distributed, office-less environment. You will collaborate with Product, Design, and Engineering to own major features, maintain reliability, and contribute to a

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 approaches.
• Self-drive to improve the app and codebase beyond the spec.
• Rock solid experience with Kotlin, Coroutines, 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 delivering high quality features with design teams.
• Shape the future of the Android team.
• Own, maintain and improve reliability metrics for key features.
• Participate in discussions across 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

Android development

Kotlin

Kotlin Coroutines

Kotlin Flow

Dagger 2

MVVM

Clean Architecture

Jetpack Navigation

JUnit

UI/UX intuition

Testing mindset

Communication skills

Tools

Jetpack Compose

Android Studio

Git

Room

Custom Views

Canvas & Paint

Job description

Speechify is seeking a Senior Android Engineer to support the growing Android app user base and work on innovative projects. The role requires strategic thinking, fast-paced delivery, and a passion for crafting excellent user experiences.

We value leadership, strong technical skills, and a track record of delivering results in a distributed, office-less environment. You will collaborate with Product, Design, and Engineering to own major features, maintain reliability, and contribute to a