Tech Lead, Android Core Product

About the role

Speechify is seeking a Senior Android Engineer to support its growing Android user base and lead new projects. This role involves strategic thinking and building high-quality user experiences in a fast-paced, flat organization. The ideal candidate will be passionate about product decisions and capable of delivering results consistently.

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

Required skills

• Android
• 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

Benefits

• Competitive salaries
• Fast-growing environment
• Entrepreneurial-minded team
• Hands-off management approach

About the Company

Speechify is a text-to-speech platform with over 50 million users that helps people read faster and remember more. The company operates in a 100% distributed setting with a team of nearly 200 people from diverse backgrounds.