Tech Lead, Android Core Product - Gurgaon, India

Overview

Own major features for Speechify’s Android app, shape the future of the Android team, and help support the app’s growing user base through high-quality product development and user experiences.

What you'll do

• Own major features and work closely with the design team to deliver high-quality features inside the app.
• Shape the future of the 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 and cope with unexpected challenges.
• Take ownership of feature releases and provide nightly builds for the QA team.

What 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, Kotlin Coroutines, Kotlin Flow, Dagger 2, MVVM, Clean Architecture, Background Services, Music Player Service, Android Animations, Jetpack Navigation, and 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.

Details

• Location: Gurgaon, India.
• The company operates in a 100% distributed setting and has no office.
• The role involves providing nightly builds for the QA team.