Senior Android Tech Lead - Remote, Impactful UX

Speechify; United States; Remote; USD 30,000 - 115,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salaries

Asynchronous culture

Shape product and company

Job summary

Speechify, a fully distributed company, is seeking a Senior Android Engineer to own major Android features and shape the app's future. You will work closely with Product, Design, and Engineering to deliver high quality user experiences across Kotlin-based stacks, Kotlin Coroutines, and Jetpack components.

You should bring 5+ years of software engineering, hands-on Android app experience, and a passion for tests and robust architecture.

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

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

Skills

Android development

Kotlin

MVVM

Unit testing

UI/UX design

Communication

Problem solving

Tools

Kotlin Coroutines

Kotlin Flow

Dagger 2

Jetpack Navigation

Room

Jetpack Compose

JUnit

Job description

Speechify, a fully distributed company, is seeking a Senior Android Engineer to own major Android features and shape the app's future. You will work closely with Product, Design, and Engineering to deliver high quality user experiences across Kotlin-based stacks, Kotlin Coroutines, and Jetpack components.

You should bring 5+ years of software engineering, hands-on Android app experience, and a passion for tests and robust architecture.