Tech Lead, Android Core Product - Chicago, IL, USA at speechify – Chicago | Jobyssey

The mission of Speechify is to make sure that reading is never a barrier to learning.

Over 50 million people use Speechify’s text-to-speech products to turn whatever they’re reading – PDFs, books, Google Docs, news articles, websites – into audio, so they can read faster, read more, and remember more. Speechify’s text-to-speech reading products include its iOS app, Android App, Mac App, Chrome Extension, and Web App. Google recently named Speechify the Chrome Extension of the Year and Apple named Speechify its Design award winner for inclusivity for 2025.

Today, nearly 200 people around the globe work on Speechify in a 100% distributed setting – Speechify has no office. These include frontend and backend engineers, AI research scientists, and others from Amazon, Microsoft, and Google, leading PhD programs like Stanford, high growth startups like Stripe, Vercel, Bolt, and many founders of their own companies.

Overview

With the growth of our Android app, being the most used text-to-speech app in the Play Store, we find the need for a Senior Android Engineer to help us support the new user base as well as work on new and exciting projects to push us forward.

This is a key role and ideal for someone who thinks strategically, enjoys fast-paced environments, passionate about making product decisions, and has experience building great user experiences that delight users.

We are a flat organization that allows anyone to become a leader by showing excellent technical skills and delivering results consistently and fast. Work ethic, solid communication skills, and obsession with winning are paramount.

Our interview process involves several technical interviews and we aim to complete them within 1 week.

What You’ll Do

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
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
Handle critical issues or cope with unexpected challenges
Take ownership of feature releases and provide nightly builds for the 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 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
Excellent communication skills
User oriented problem solving approach
Driven with continuous feedback from leaders

Bonus:

Experience building, maintaining, or otherwise contributing to open source projects in Android
Experience with iOS, Web or NodeJS

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 like dyslexia, ADD, low vision, concussions, autism, and more.
Work in one of the fastest growing sectors of tech, the intersection of artificial intelligence and audio.

The United States Based Salary range for this role is: 140,000-200,000 USD/Year + Bonus + Stock depending on experience

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Speechify is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace.

Speechify does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status.

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