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 contribute to product decisions and help shape the future of the Android team.

Responsibilities

• Owning major features and working closely with our design team
• 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

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

Nice to have

• Open source contribution
• iOS
• Web
• NodeJS

Qualifications

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

Benefits

• Competitive salaries

About the Company

Speechify's mission is to ensure reading is never a barrier to learning. Over 50 million people use its text-to-speech products to turn various formats into audio, and the company operates as a 100% distributed team.