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 environment. The ideal candidate will contribute to a flat organization where technical excellence and results are highly valued.

Responsibilities

• Own major features and work closely with the design team to deliver high-quality results.
• Shape the future of the Android team.
• Own, maintain, and improve reliability metrics for key features.
• Participate in cross-functional discussions across Product, Design, and Engineering teams.
• Review pull requests and support other teammates.
• Handle critical issues and 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

Qualifications

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

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Fast-growing environment
• Entrepreneurial team culture
• Hands-off management

About the Company

Speechify is a text-to-speech platform that helps over 50 million people read faster and remember more by turning text into audio. The company is a flat organization that operates in a distributed setting and focuses on making reading accessible to everyone.