Tech Lead, Android Core Product
Role Overview
This senior-level Tech Lead role involves owning major features, collaborating with design teams, and shaping the future of the Android team at Speechify Inc. Day-to-day responsibilities include maintaining reliability metrics, reviewing pull requests, handling critical issues, and providing nightly builds for QA. The hire will have a significant impact on pushing the app forward and supporting its growing user base.
Perks & Benefits
The job offers a fully remote, worldwide position with a flat organizational structure that encourages leadership through technical excellence and results. It provides opportunities for career growth by allowing anyone to become a leader, with a fast-paced environment focused on product decisions and user delight. The interview process is efficient, aiming for completion within one week, and the role emphasizes work ethic, communication, and a winning mindset.
Full Job Description
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
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