Senior Android Tech Lead — Core Product & UX Impact

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

Job summary

Speechify, a fast-growing, fully distributed company, is seeking a Senior Android Engineer to help scale our Android app for millions of users. You will own major features, work with design and product, and shape the future of our Android team.

The ideal candidate has 5+ years of software engineering, deep experience with Kotlin and Android components, and a track record of building or contributing to at least one Android app.

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, 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 and feedback-driven.

Responsibilities

• Owning major features and delivering high quality features with the design team.
• Shape the future of the Android team.
• Own, maintain and improve reliability metrics for key features.
• Participate in cross-team discussions with Product, Design, and Engineering.
• Review PRs and support teammates.
• Handle critical issues and unexpected challenges.
• Take ownership of feature releases and provide nightly builds for QA.

Skills

Android components

Android app development

Kotlin

Kotlin Coroutines

Kotlin Flow

Dagger 2

MVVM

Jetpack Navigation

JUnit tests

UI/UX design

Tools

Room

Android Studio

Jetpack Compose

JUnit

Job description

Speechify, a fast-growing, fully distributed company, is seeking a Senior Android Engineer to help scale our Android app for millions of users. You will own major features, work with design and product, and shape the future of our Android team.

The ideal candidate has 5+ years of software engineering, deep experience with Kotlin and Android components, and a track record of building or contributing to at least one Android app.