Senior Android Engineer, Speechify
AI text-to-speech reader
Open for applications
AI text-to-speech reader
101-200 employees
Open for applications
101-200 employees
Company mission
To make sure that reading is never a barrier to learning.
Role
Who you are
- This is a key role and ideal for someone who’s either worked at a startup and built apps from scratch, or someone parachuting out of a big company that wants to get deeply involved in building a new and feature rich product
- 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, RxJava 2, Dagger 2, Clean Architecture or VIPER, Background Services, Constraint Layout
- Good communication skills
Desirable
- Experience building, maintaining, or otherwise contributing to open source projects
- Great sense for design guidelines
- Experience with Android Audio APIs
What the job involves
- As a core member of our Android team, you'll directly impact the lifeline of the business by building the foundation and supporting key features of our new Android app
- Owning major features and working closely with our design team
- 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
- Take ownership of feature releases and provide nightly builds for the QA team
Our take
Speechify’s AI-powered app and browser extension make it easy for users to listen to emails, text documents, e-books, PDFs, online blogs, and articles in a variety of voices, languages, and speeds.
Text-to-speech technology has been fraught with performance issues for a long time, though in recent years this has begun to change for the better. Products like Amazon Polly, Linguatech Voice Reader, and Natural Reader have made real inroads on this front. What may set Speechify apart, however, is the insight of founder Cliff Weitzman, who built the app to help people with dyslexia, ADHD, vision impairments and other learning difficulties.
The company’s future growth may depend largely on who it targets and how it does so. Thus far it’s been mostly branded as a learning assistant, lauded by parents, teachers and adult users with reading disabilities. This niche approach is interesting and offers a potentially large market in the education sector. However, the technology also has mainstream appeal, with the potential to be branded as a productivity booster or multi-tasking assistant.
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Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
-8% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company values
- Frugality: We accomplish more wtih less. We understand that constraints breed resourcefulness, self-sufficiency, and invention
- Ownership: We take control of each problem. We don't sacrifice long term value for short term results. We act on behalf of the company (and our team) rather than just ourselves
- Extreme product quality: We are world-class in our attention to detail. We maintain incredibly high standards. We constantly dogfood our products
- Always be hiring; We recognize that a company is by definition a collection of people. We bring great people together to do cool stuff
- Customer obsession: We work backwards from customers. We pay attention to competitors but obsess over customers
- Leading with love: We always think of ways to improve the lives of our teammates, stakeholders, & customers. We treat other with respect and care
- Deliver results: We are numbers driven. We focus on high leverage problems
- Speed: We have an extreme bias to action. We understand that speed is critical for success. We take calculated risks.
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Leadership
Cliff Weitzman
(CEO)Having studied at Brown University, Cliff founded YumPass, CellArmor, and BoardBrake before working as a Software Engineer at WeMap and StarterPack. In 2018, they founded Speechify, serving as the CEO since.
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