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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 **.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.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.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 Take ownership of feature releases and provide nightly builds for the QA team 5+ years of software engineering experience Familiarity with Android components Experience building or contributing to at least one Android app Drive to push the boundaries of Android UI/UX Understanding of the importance of tests and how to approach writing tests 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 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 JUnit Work in one of the fastest growing sectors of tech, the intersection of artificial intelligence and audio.
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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. 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 Take ownership of feature releases and provide nightly builds for the QA team 5+ years of software engineering experience Familiarity with Android components Experience building or contributing to at least one Android app Drive to push the boundaries of Android UI/UX Understanding of the importance of tests and how to approach writing tests 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 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 JUnit Work in one of the fastest growing sectors of tech, the
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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 **. 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.
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