Senior Android Engineer, Speechify
AI text-to-speech reader
Job no longer available
AI text-to-speech reader
101-200 employees
Job no longer available
101-200 employees
Company mission
To empower users to listen to their emails, books, papers, and documents with ease.
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
Otta's take
Sam Franklin
CEO of Otta
Speechify’s AI-powered app and browser extension makes it easy for users to 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 in-roads 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 (which he himself has), 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.
Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
-8% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company benefits
- Work from home opportunities
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Founders
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 in 2018, serving since as CEO.
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