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 product initiatives. This role involves strategic thinking and building high-quality user experiences in a fast-paced, flat organizational structure. The ideal candidate will contribute to the future of the Android team while maintaining high reliability for key features.

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

Benefits

• Competitive salaries

About the Company

Speechify provides text-to-speech products that help over 50 million people read faster and remember more. The company operates as a 100% distributed team with no physical offices.