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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.\nToday, 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.\nOverview\nWith 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. \nThis 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.\nWe 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. \nOur interview process involves several technical interviews and we aim to complete them within 1 week. \nWhat You’ll Do\nOwning major features and working closely with our design team - take ownership of features inside the app and become responsible of delivering high quality features\nShape the future of our Android team\nOwn, maintain and improve reliability metrics for key features\nParticipate in discussions across different teams - Product, Design, Engineering\nReview pull requests, and support other teammates\nHandle critical issues or cope with unexpected challenges \nTake ownership of feature releases and provide nightly builds for the QA team\nAn Ideal Candidate Should Have\n5+ years of software engineering experience\nFamiliarity with Android components\nExperience building or contributing to at least one Android app\nProduct design intuition and user empathy\nDrive to push the boundaries of Android UI/UX\nUnderstanding of the importance of tests and how to approach writing tests\nSelf-drive to improve the app and codebase above and beyond what's outlined in the spec\nRock solid experience with Kotlin, Kotlin Coroutines, Kotlin Flow, Dagger 2, MVVM, Clean Architecture, Background Services, Music Player Service, Android Animations, Jetpack Navigation, JUnit tests\nExcellent communication skills\nUser oriented problem solving approach\nDriven with continuous feedback from leaders\nBonus:\nExperience building, maintaining, or otherwise contributing to open source projects in Android\nExperience with iOS, Web or NodeJS\nTechnologies we use:\nKotlin\nKotlin Coroutines\nKotlin Flow\nJetpack Navigation\nDagger 2\nRoom\nCustom Views, Canvas & Paint\nJetpack Compose\nJUnit\nWhat We offer:\nA fast-growing environment where you can help shape the company and product.\nAn entrepreneurial-minded team that supports risk, intuition, and hustle.\nA hands-off management approach so you can focus and do your best work.\nAn opportunity to make a big impact in a transformative industry.\nCompetitive salaries, a friendly and laid-back atmosphere, and a commitment to building a great asynchronous culture.\nOpportunity to work on a life-changing product that millions of people use.\nBuild products that directly impact and support people with learning differences like dyslexia, ADD, low vision, concussions, autism, and more.\nWork in one of the fastest growing sectors of tech, the intersection of artificial intelligence and audio.\nThe United States Based Salary range for this role is: 140,000-200,000 USD/Year + Bonus + Stock depending on experience\nThink you’re a good fit for this job? 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