Tech Lead, Android Core Product - Dubai, United Arab Emirates
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About the Role
Speechify is seeking a Tech Lead for Android Core Product to own major features, shape the Android team, and deliver high-quality user experiences. Ideal candidates have 5+ years of software engineering experience, deep Android expertise, and a passion for building accessible products.
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Responsibilities
- Own major features and work closely with design team to deliver high quality features
- Shape the future of the Android team
- Own, maintain and improve reliability metrics for key features
- Participate in cross team discussions across Product, Design, Engineering
- Review pull requests and support other teammates
- Handle critical issues and unexpected challenges
- Take ownership of feature releases and provide nightly builds for QA team
Requirements
- 5+ years of software engineering experience
- Familiarity with Android components
- Experience building or contributing to at least one Android app
- 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
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Overview
- Speechify is a text to speech product used by over 50 million people.
- The company is 100% distributed with no office, nearly 200 employees globally.
- This role is for a Senior Android Engineer to support the growing Android app.
What You'll Do
- Owning major features and working closely with design team.
- Shape the future of the Android team.
- Own, maintain and improve reliability metrics for key features.
- Participate in discussions across 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 QA team.
An Ideal Candidate Should Have
- 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.
- Self drive to improve the app and codebase.
- 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.
Technologies we use
- Kotlin
- Kotlin Coroutines
- Kotlin Flow
- Jetpack Navigation
- Dagger 2
- Room
- Custom Views, Canvas & Paint
- Jetpack Compose
- JUnit
What We offer
- A fast growing environment where you can help shape the company and product.
- An entrepreneurial minded team that supports risk, intuition, and hustle.
- A hands off management approach so you can focus and do your best work.
- An opportunity to make a big impact in a transformative industry.
- Competitive salaries, a friendly and laid back atmosphere, and a commitment to building a great asynchronous culture.
- Opportunity to work on a life changing product that millions of people use.
- Build products that directly impact and support people with learning differences.
- Work in one of the fastest growing sectors of tech, the intersection of artificial intelligence and audio.
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