Speechify needs a Senior Android Engineer to support its growing user base on the Android app and to work on new projects to advance the product. The company aims to make reading accessible for everyone, especially individuals with learning differences.
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
