Tech Lead, Android Core Product

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Florida.

📋 Description

• Take ownership of significant features and collaborate closely with the design team, ensuring the delivery of high-quality functionalities within the app.

• Influence the direction of the Android team.

• Manage, sustain, and enhance reliability metrics for essential features.

• Engage in discussions with Product, Design, and Engineering teams.

• Review pull requests and provide support to fellow team members.

• Address critical issues and navigate unforeseen challenges.

• Oversee feature releases and deliver nightly builds for the QA team.

• Contribute to Speechify's mission of enhancing reading accessibility through text-to-speech products.

⛳️ Requirements

• A minimum of 5 years of experience in software engineering.

• Knowledge of Android components.

• Experience in building or contributing to at least one Android application.

• Intuition for product design and empathy for users.

• A strong desire to innovate within the Android UI/UX space.

• Understanding of the significance of tests and the methodology for writing them.

• Self-motivated to enhance the app and codebase beyond the specifications.

• Solid expertise in Kotlin, Kotlin Coroutines, Kotlin Flow, Dagger 2, MVVM, Clean Architecture, Background Services, Music Player Service, Android Animations, Jetpack Navigation, and JUnit tests.

• Exceptional communication abilities.

• A user-focused problem-solving mindset.

• Motivated by continuous feedback from leadership.

• Portfolio and LinkedIn links should be included with the application.

• Bonus: Experience in building, maintaining, or contributing to open-source projects related to Android.

• Bonus: Familiarity with iOS, Web, or NodeJS.

🏝️ Benefits

• Bonus opportunities.

• Stock options.

• A rapidly growing environment where you can influence the company and product.

• An entrepreneurial team that encourages risk-taking, intuition, and initiative.

• A management style that allows for independence, enabling you to focus on achieving your best work.

• An opportunity to significantly impact a transformative industry.

• Competitive salary packages.

• A friendly and relaxed working atmosphere.

• A commitment to fostering a strong asynchronous culture.

• The chance to work on a life-changing product used by millions of individuals.

• Create products that directly benefit and support individuals with learning differences such as dyslexia, ADD, low vision, concussions, autism, and more.

• Engage in one of the fastest-growing sectors of technology, at the intersection of artificial intelligence and audio.