Tech Lead, Android Core Product - Omaha, NE, USA

The role

A Senior Android Engineer will own major features and shape the future of the Android team. You will work on the Android app to support a growing user base and improve reliability metrics.

What you will do

• Own major features and work closely with the design team
• Shape the future of the Android team
• Own, maintain and improve reliability metrics for key features
• Participate in discussions across Product, Design, and Engineering teams
• Review pull requests and support teammates
• Handle critical issues or unexpected challenges
• Take ownership of feature releases and provide nightly builds for the QA team

Required qualifications

• 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 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 have

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

Benefits

• Fast-growing environment
• Entrepreneurial-minded team
• Hands-off management approach
• Opportunity to make a big impact
• Competitive salaries
• Friendly and laid-back atmosphere
• Commitment to building a great asynchronous culture
• Opportunity to work on a life-changing product

Before you apply

• Include links to your portfolio and LinkedIn

About the company

Speechify makes sure that reading is never a barrier to learning through text-to-speech products. Nearly 200 people work in a 100% distributed setting.