Tech Lead, Android Core Product - Kolkata, India

The role

You will own major features and work closely with the design team to deliver high quality features. You will shape the future of the Android team and maintain reliability metrics for key features.

What you will do

• Take ownership of features inside the app and deliver high quality features
• Shape the future of our 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 other teammates
• Handle critical issues or cope with 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 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 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. Nearly 200 people work in a 100% distributed setting.