Senior Android Tech Lead (Remote) — Shape the UX at Scale

Speechify; United States; Remote; USD 30,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salaries

Stock options

Asynchronous culture

Impactful product

Dyslexia & learning support impact

Job summary

Speechify seeks a Senior Android Engineer to own major features, shape the Android team, and ensure reliability for key features in a fully distributed environment. The role emphasizes strategic thinking, fast delivery, and delightful user experiences across Android apps and integrations.

The ideal candidate has 5+ years of software engineering experience, deep Kotlin expertise, and strong testing discipline, with a track record of shipping Android apps and contributing to open source.

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

Kotlin

Kotlin Coroutines

Kotlin Flow

Jetpack Navigation

Dagger 2

MVVM

Clean Architecture

Background Services

Music Player Service

Android Animations

JUnit

Open source contributions

iOS/Web/NodeJS

Tools

Room

Custom Views

Canvas & Paint

Jetpack Compose

Job description

Speechify seeks a Senior Android Engineer to own major features, shape the Android team, and ensure reliability for key features in a fully distributed environment. The role emphasizes strategic thinking, fast delivery, and delightful user experiences across Android apps and integrations.

The ideal candidate has 5+ years of software engineering experience, deep Kotlin expertise, and strong testing discipline, with a track record of shipping Android apps and contributing to open source.