Tech Lead, Android Core Product

About this role

Headquarters: Florida

URL: http://www.speechify.com

Overview

With the growth of our Android app, being the most used text-to-speech app in the Play Store, we find the need for a Senior Android Engineer to help us support the new user base as well as work on new and exciting projects to push us forward.

This is a key role and ideal for someone who thinks strategically, enjoys fast-paced environments, passionate about making product decisions, and has experience building great user experiences that delight users.

We are a flat organization that allows anyone to become a leader by showing excellent technical skills and delivering results consistently and fast. Work ethic, solid communication skills, and obsession with winning are paramount.

Our interview process involves several technical interviews and we aim to complete them within 1 week.

What You’ll Do

Owning major features and working closely with our design team - take ownership of features inside the app and become responsible of delivering high quality features

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

An Ideal Candidate Should Have

5+ years of software engineering experience

Familiarity with Android components

Experience building or contributing to at least one Android app

Product design intuition and user empathy

Drive to push the boundaries of Android UI/UX

Understanding of the importance of tests and how to approach writing tests

Self-drive to improve the app and codebase above and beyond what's outlined in the spec

Rock solid experience with Kotlin, Kotlin Coroutines, Kotlin Flow, Dagger 2, MVVM, Clean Architecture, Background Services, Music Player Service, Android Animations, Jetpack Navigation, JUnit tests

Excellent communication skills

User oriented problem solving approach

Driven with continuous feedback from leaders

Bonus:

Experience building, maintaining, or otherwise contributing to open source projects in Android

Experience with iOS, Web or NodeJS

Technologies we use:

Kotlin

Kotlin Coroutines

Kotlin Flow

Jetpack Navigation

Dagger 2

Room

Custom Views, Canvas & Paint

Jetpack Compose

JUnit

To apply: https://weworkremotely.com/remote-jobs/speechify-inc-tech-lead-android-core-product