Tech Lead, Android Core Product

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

📋 Description

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

• Influence the future direction of the Android team.

• Manage, maintain, 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 unexpected challenges.

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

• Develop and enhance Speechify’s Android text-to-speech application utilized by millions.

• Participate in various technical interviews, with the goal of completion within one week.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 5 years of experience in software engineering.

• Knowledge of Android components.

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

• Strong intuition for product design and empathy for users.

• Motivation to push the limits of Android UI/UX.

• Understanding the significance of testing and how to effectively write tests.

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

• Extensive experience with Kotlin, Kotlin Coroutines, Kotlin Flow, Dagger 2, MVVM, Clean Architecture, Background Services, Music Player Service, Android Animations, Jetpack Navigation, and JUnit tests.

• Exceptional communication skills.

• A user-centric problem-solving mindset.

• Driven by continuous feedback from leadership.

🏝️ Benefits

• Bonus.

• Stock options.

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

• An entrepreneurial team that embraces risk, intuition, and determination.

• A hands-off management style that allows you to concentrate on delivering your best work.

• An opportunity to create a significant impact in a transformative industry.

• Competitive salary packages.

• A friendly and relaxed work environment.

• A commitment to fostering an excellent asynchronous culture.

• Opportunity to work on a life-changing product that millions rely on.

• Develop products that directly assist 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.