Remote Job

Senior Android Engineer

Speechify

• Full Time
• Posted : 3 years ago

TELECOMMUTE                                             LOCATION: REMOTE

As a core member of our Android team, you’ll directly impact the lifeline of the business by building the foundation and supporting key features of our new Android app. This is a key role and ideal for someone who’s either worked at a startup and built apps from scratch, or someone parachuting out of a big company that wants to get deeply involved in building a new and feature-rich product.

Responsibilities and Duties

Some of the things you’ll do:

• Owning major features and working closely with our design team
• Shape the future of our Android team
• 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
• Take ownership of feature releases and provide nightly builds for the QA team

To succeed here, you’ll need:

• 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, RxJava 2, Dagger 2, Clean Architecture or VIPER, Background Services, Constraint Layout
• Good communication skills

Bonus:

• Experience building, maintaining, or otherwise contributing to open source projects
• Great sense for design guidelines
• Experience with Android Audio APIs

Technologies we use:

• Kotlin
• Coroutines/RxJava
• Kotlin Flow
• Jetpack Navigation
• Retrofit/OkHttp
• Dagger 2
• Room
• Custom Views, Canvas & Paint
• (Bonus) Jetpack Compose

We offer:

• A fast-growing environment where you can help shape the culture
• An entrepreneurial crew that supports risk, intuition, and hustle
• A hands-off approach so you can focus and do your best work
• The opportunity to make an impact in a transformative industry
• A competitive compensation, and a commitment to building a great asynchronous culture

Skills

• Android Application Development
• communication skills
• API
• Kotlin
• Software Engineering
• Product design
• Dagger
• RxJava
• UI/IUX Development
• Clean Architecture