Tech Lead, Android Core Product

About the role

Speechify is seeking a Senior Android Engineer to support the growth of its text-to-speech application and lead new projects. This role involves strategic thinking, product decision-making, and building high-quality user experiences in a fast-paced, flat organization. The ideal candidate will contribute to the future of the Android team while maintaining high reliability and performance standards.

Responsibilities

• Owning major features and working closely with the design team to deliver high-quality results.
• Shaping the future of the Android team.
• Owning, maintaining, and improving reliability metrics for key features.
• Participating in cross-functional discussions across Product, Design, and Engineering teams.
• Reviewing pull requests and supporting other teammates.
• Handling critical issues and coping with unexpected challenges.
• Taking ownership of feature releases and providing nightly builds for the QA team.

Required skills

• Kotlin
• Kotlin Coroutines
• Kotlin Flow
• Dagger 2
• MVVM
• Clean Architecture
• Background Services
• Music Player Service
• Android Animations
• Jetpack Navigation
• JUnit

Nice to have

• Open source contribution
• iOS
• Web
• NodeJS
• Room
• Custom Views
• Canvas
• Paint
• Jetpack Compose

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience
• Experience building or contributing to at least one Android app

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Stock options
• Bonus

About the Company

Speechify's mission is to ensure reading is never a barrier to learning, with over 50 million people using its text-to-speech products. The company operates in a 100% distributed setting with nearly 200 employees globally and has been recognized for its design and innovation in the industry.