Tech Lead, Android Core Product

About the role

Speechify is seeking a Tech Lead for our Android Core Product to support our growing user base and drive new projects. This role involves strategic thinking and building high-quality user experiences in a fast-paced, flat organization. You will play a key role in shaping the future of our Android team and product.

Responsibilities

• Owning major features and working closely with our design team
• Shaping the future of our Android team
• Owning, maintaining and improving reliability metrics for key features
• Participating in discussions across Product, Design, and Engineering teams
• Reviewing pull requests and supporting other teammates
• Handling critical issues or 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

Qualifications

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

Benefits

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

About the Company

Speechify is a text-to-speech platform used by over 50 million people to turn reading materials into audio. The company operates as a 100% distributed team with no offices, employing engineers and scientists from leading tech companies and universities.