Tech Lead, Android Core Product - Santa Cruz, CA, USA
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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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
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