Tech Lead, Android Core Product - Kochi, India

Overview

Own major features and help shape the future of Speechify's Android team while delivering high-quality user experiences for its Android app.

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.
• Review pull requests and support other teammates.
• Handle critical issues and cope with unexpected challenges.
• Take ownership of feature releases.
• 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: Kochi, India.
• The company describes its setting as 100% distributed and having no office.
• The interview process involves several technical interviews and aims to be completed within 1 week.
• The role uses Kotlin, Kotlin Coroutines, Kotlin Flow, Jetpack Navigation, Dagger 2, Room, Custom Views, Canvas & Paint, Jetpack Compose and JUnit.