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, product decision-making, and building high-quality user experiences in a fast-paced, flat organization. The ideal candidate will help shape the future of the Android team while maintaining high reliability for key features.

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
• Reviewing pull requests and supporting teammates
• Handling critical issues and 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
• Android components

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
• Entrepreneurial environment
• Hands-off management
• Impactful work

About the Company

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