Tech Lead, Android Core Product - Cape Town, South Africa

Clutch Canada; Cape Town; On-site; ZAR 600,000 - 900,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salaries

Friendly and laid-back atmosphere

Opportunity to shape the company

Work on impactful products

Job summary

Speechify, based in Cape Town, is looking for a Senior Android Engineer to enhance its popular text-to-speech app. In this role, you will own major app features, collaborate with design teams, and ensure top-notch application performance. Ideal candidates should have over 5 years of software engineering experience with robust knowledge of Kotlin and Android development. You will thrive in a fast-growing environment that values initiative and offers competitive salaries, making a significant impact in the tech industry.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience.
• Experience building or contributing to at least one Android app.
• Rock solid experience with Kotlin and related technologies.

Responsibilities

• Own major features and work closely with design teams.
• Participate in discussions across Product, Design, and Engineering teams.
• Handle critical issues and take ownership of feature releases.

Skills

Software engineering experience

Android components familiarity

Experience with Kotlin

Communication skills

User oriented problem solving

Tools

Kotlin Coroutines

Dagger 2

JUnit

Jetpack Navigation

Job description

Overview

With the growth of our Android app, being the most used text-to-speech app in the Play Store, we find the need for a Senior Android Engineer to help us support the new user base as well as work on new and exciting projects to push us forward.

What You’ll Do

• 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

An Ideal Candidate Should Have

• 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

Bonus

• Experience building, maintaining, or otherwise contributing to open source projects in Android
• Experience with iOS, Web or NodeJS

Technologies we use

• Kotlin
• Kotlin Coroutines
• Kotlin Flow
• Jetpack Navigation
• Dagger 2
• Room
• Custom Views, Canvas & Paint
• Jetpack Compose
• JUnit

What We offer

• A fast-growing environment where you can help shape the company and product.
• An entrepreneurial-minded team that supports risk, intuition, and hustle.
• A hands‑off management approach so you can focus and do your best work.
• An opportunity to make a big impact in a transformative industry.
• Competitive salaries, a friendly and laid‑back atmosphere, and a commitment to building a great asynchronous culture.
• Opportunity to work on a life‑changing product that millions of people use.
• Build products that directly impact and support people with learning differences like dyslexia, ADD, low vision, concussions, autism, and more.
• Work in one of the fastest growing sectors of tech, the intersection of artificial intelligence and audio.

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