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

Asynchronous culture

Impactful product

Job summary

Speechify is seeking a Senior Android Engineer to own major features for its Android app and collaborate with design to deliver high-quality user experiences. This fast-paced, strategic role emphasizes leadership, fast delivery, and strong technical execution.

You will help shape the Android roadmap, improve reliability, and work cross-functionally with Product, Design, and Engineering while thriving in a distributed, async 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 how to write them.
• 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 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

Kotlin

Kotlin Coroutines

Kotlin Flow

Dagger 2

MVVM

Jetpack Navigation

Jetpack Compose

Room

Unit testing (JUnit)

Android UI/UX

Tools

Room

Android Studio

Job description

Speechify is seeking a Senior Android Engineer to own major features for its Android app and collaborate with design to deliver high-quality user experiences. This fast-paced, strategic role emphasizes leadership, fast delivery, and strong technical execution.

You will help shape the Android roadmap, improve reliability, and work cross-functionally with Product, Design, and Engineering while thriving in a distributed, async environment.