Tech Lead, Android Core Product - Santa Cruz, CA, USA

SpeechifySanta Cruz, CA
$140,000 - $200,000Remote

About The Position

The mission of Speechify is to ensure reading is never a barrier to learning, with over 50 million users utilizing its text-to-speech products across various platforms. Speechify has been recognized by Google as the Chrome Extension of the Year and by Apple with a Design award for inclusivity in 2025. The company operates as a 100% distributed organization with nearly 200 employees globally. This role is for a Senior Android Engineer to support the growth of the Android app, which is the most used text-to-speech app in the Play Store. The ideal candidate is strategic, thrives in fast-paced environments, is passionate about product decisions, and excels at building delightful user experiences. Speechify is a flat organization that values excellent technical skills, consistent and fast delivery, strong work ethic, solid communication, and an obsession with winning.

Requirements

  • 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

Nice To Haves

  • Experience building, maintaining, or otherwise contributing to open source projects in Android
  • Experience with iOS, Web or NodeJS

Responsibilities

  • 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

Benefits

  • A fast-growing environment where you can help shape the company and product.
  • An entrepreneurial-minded team that supports risk, intuition, and hustle.
  • A hands-off management approach so you can focus and do your best work.
  • An opportunity to make a big impact in a transformative industry.
  • Competitive salaries, a friendly and laid-back atmosphere, and a commitment to building a great asynchronous culture.
  • Opportunity to work on a life-changing product that millions of people use.
  • Build products that directly impact and support people with learning differences like dyslexia, ADD, low vision, concussions, autism, and more.
  • Work in one of the fastest growing sectors of tech, the intersection of artificial intelligence and audio.
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