Speechify
AI, Audio, Text-to-Speech
TechLead,AndroidCoreProduct
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“Tech Lead, Android Core Product at Speechify. Skills: Android Core Product, Kotlin, Kotlin Coroutines, Kotlin Flow, Dagger 2, MVVM, Clean Architecture, Jetpack Navigation, JUnit tests. Owning major features. Working closely with design team”
What You'll Achieve.
Delivering high quality features; Improve reliability metrics for key features; Deliver results consistently and fast
Industry & Context.
User oriented problem solving approach
What They're Looking For.
Must 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, Rock solid experience with Kotlin Coroutines, Rock solid experience with Kotlin Flow, Rock solid experience with Dagger 2, Rock solid experience with MVVM, Rock solid experience with Clean Architecture, Rock solid experience with Background Services, Rock solid experience with Music Player Service, Rock solid experience with Android Animations, Rock solid experience with Jetpack Navigation, Rock solid experience with JUnit tests, User oriented problem solving approach, Driven with continuous feedback from leaders
Nice to Have
Experience building, maintaining, or otherwise contributing to open source projects in Android, Experience with iOS, Experience with Web, Experience with NodeJS
What You'll Do.
Owning major features
Working closely with design team
Taking ownership of features inside the app
Becoming responsible for delivering high quality features
Shaping the future of the Android team
maintaining and improving reliability metrics for key features
Participating in discussions across different teams
Reviewing pull requests
Supporting other teammates
Handling critical issues
Coping with unexpected challenges
Taking ownership of feature releases
Providing nightly builds for the QA team
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Working closely with our design team; Participate in discussions across different teams - Product, Design, Engineering; Review pull requests; Support other teammates
Communication Scope
Solid communication skills
Process & Methodology
Ownership of feature releases
Full Job Description
The mission of Speechify is to make sure that reading is never a barrier to learning. Over 50 million people use Speechify’s text-to-speech products to turn whatever they’re reading – PDFs, books, Google Docs, news articles, websites – into audio, so they can read faster, read more, and remember more. Speechify’s text-to-speech reading products include its iOS app, Android App, Mac App, Chrome Extension, and Web App. Google recently named Speechify the Chrome Extension of the Year and Apple named Speechify its Design award winner for inclusivity for 2025. Today, nearly 200 people around the globe work on Speechify in a 100% distributed setting – Speechify has no office. These include frontend and backend engineers, AI research scientists, and others from Amazon, Microsoft, and Google, leading PhD programs like Stanford, high growth startups like Stripe, Vercel, Bolt, and many founders of their own companies. 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 feature
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