Senior Android Tech Lead — Core Product & UX

Speechify Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salaries

Asynchronous culture

Impactful work

Life-changing product

Job summary

Speechify Inc. is seeking a Senior Android Engineer to own major features, shape the Android team's future, and improve reliability across key features. You will collaborate with Product, Design, and Engineering, review PRs, and handle critical issues while delivering nightly builds for QA.

Join a fast-growing, distributed company shaping literacy tech. You will work in a 100% distributed environment with a focus on Kotlin, Android UI/UX, and high-quality test coverage to enhance accessibility

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 - 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

Android app experience

Product design intuition

User empathy

UI/UX mindset

Testing mindset

Self-motivated

Communication skills

Problem solving

Tools

Kotlin

Kotlin Coroutines

Kotlin Flow

Jetpack Navigation

Dagger 2

MVVM

Clean Architecture

Background Services

Music Player Service

Android Animations

JUnit

Job description

Speechify Inc. is seeking a Senior Android Engineer to own major features, shape the Android team's future, and improve reliability across key features. You will collaborate with Product, Design, and Engineering, review PRs, and handle critical issues while delivering nightly builds for QA.

Join a fast-growing, distributed company shaping literacy tech. You will work in a 100% distributed environment with a focus on Kotlin, Android UI/UX, and high-quality test coverage to enhance accessibility