Speechify is experiencing growth in its Android app user base and needs a Senior Android Engineer to support this new user base and work on new projects to drive the company forward.
Requirements
- Familiarity with Android components
- Experience building or contributing to at least one Android app
- 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
- Experience building, maintaining, or otherwise contributing to open source projects in Android
- Experience with iOS, Web or NodeJS
Responsibilities
- 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
- Own, maintain and improve reliability metrics for key features
- Participate in discussions across different teams - Product, Design, Engineering
- 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
- Shape the future of our Android team
Other
- 5+ years of software engineering experience
- Product design intuition and user empathy
- Drive to push the boundaries of Android UI/UX
- Excellent communication skills
- User oriented problem solving approach
