Senior Android Tech Lead - Core Product & UX Innovation

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

Benefits offered by this job

Fast-growing environment

Entrepreneurial-minded team

Hands-off management

Impact in a transformative industry

Competitive salaries

Stock options

Asynchronous culture

Job summary

Speechify is seeking a Senior Android Engineer to support the rapidly growing Android user base and to work on exciting projects that move the product forward. You should be strategic, thrive in a fast-paced environment, and deliver outstanding user experiences.

Speechify is a flat organization where leadership can emerge from technical excellence and results. The role emphasizes collaboration with design, product, and engineering teams, and a fast interview process.

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 tests.
• 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 approach.
• Driven with continuous feedback from leaders.

Responsibilities

• Own major features and deliver high-quality features with the design team.
• Shape the future of the Android team.
• Maintain and improve reliability metrics for key features.
• Participate in cross-team discussions (Product, Design, Engineering).
• Review pull requests and support teammates.
• Handle critical issues and unexpected challenges.
• Own feature releases and provide nightly builds for QA.

Skills

Kotlin

Android

Kotlin Coroutines

Kotlin Flow

Dagger 2

MVVM

Clean Architecture

Jetpack Navigation

JUnit tests

Android UI/UX

Tools

Jetpack Compose

Room

Custom Views

Canvas & Paint

Job description

Speechify is seeking a Senior Android Engineer to support the rapidly growing Android user base and to work on exciting projects that move the product forward. You should be strategic, thrive in a fast-paced environment, and deliver outstanding user experiences.

Speechify is a flat organization where leadership can emerge from technical excellence and results. The role emphasizes collaboration with design, product, and engineering teams, and a fast interview process.