Senior Android Tech Lead: Shape UX & Audio (Remote)

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

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus

Stock options

Job summary

Speechify is seeking a Senior Android Engineer to lead major features for its Android app and help shape the direction of the Android team. The role focuses on delivering high-quality experiences, reliability, and fast iteration in a distributed company.

You will collaborate with Product, Design, and Engineering to release features, review code, and respond to critical issues. The position values strategy, user-centric design, and a strong ability to ship results quickly across platforms.

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 approach writing 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.

Responsibilities

• Own major features and work closely with design to deliver high quality features.
• Shape the future of the Android team.
• Own, 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 or unexpected challenges.
• Take ownership of feature releases and provide nightly builds for QA.

Skills

Kotlin

Kotlin Coroutines

Kotlin Flow

Jetpack Navigation

Dagger 2

MVVM

Clean Architecture

JUnit

Jetpack Compose

Room

Android Animations

UI/UX focus

Communication skills

Tools

Android Studio

Job description

Speechify is seeking a Senior Android Engineer to lead major features for its Android app and help shape the direction of the Android team. The role focuses on delivering high-quality experiences, reliability, and fast iteration in a distributed company.

You will collaborate with Product, Design, and Engineering to release features, review code, and respond to critical issues. The position values strategy, user-centric design, and a strong ability to ship results quickly across platforms.