The mission of Confidential (Registered Users Only) is to make sure that reading is never a barrier to learning.
Over 50 million people use Confidential (Registered Users Only)’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. Confidential (Registered Users Only)’s text-to-speech reading products include its iOS app, Android App, Mac App, Chrome Extension, and Web App. Google recently named Confidential (Registered Users Only) the Chrome Extension of the Year and Apple named Confidential (Registered Users Only) its Design award winner for inclusivity for 2025.
Today, nearly 200 people around the globe work on Confidential (Registered Users Only) in a 100% distributed setting – Confidential (Registered Users Only) 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
Confidential (Registered Users Only)-sentence="">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.
Confidential (Registered Users Only)-sentence="">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.
Confidential (Registered Users Only)-sentence="">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.
Confidential (Registered Users Only)-sentence="">Our interview process involves several technical interviews and we aim to complete them within 1 week.
What You’ll Do
- Confidential (Registered Users Only)-sentence="">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
- Confidential (Registered Users Only)-sentence="">Shape the future of our Android team
- Confidential (Registered Users Only)-sentence="">Own, maintain and improve reliability metrics for key features
- Confidential (Registered Users Only)-sentence="">Participate in discussions across different teams - Product, Design, Engineering
- Confidential (Registered Users Only)-sentence="">Review pull requests, and support other teammates
- Confidential (Registered Users Only)-sentence="">Handle critical issues or cope with unexpected challenges
- Confidential (Registered Users Only)-sentence="">Take ownership of feature releases and provide nightly builds for the QA team
An Ideal Candidate Should Have
- Confidential (Registered Users Only)-sentence="">5+ years of software engineering experience
- Confidential (Registered Users Only)-sentence="">Familiarity with Android components
- Confidential (Registered Users Only)-sentence="">Experience building or contributing to at least one Android app
- Confidential (Registered Users Only)-sentence="">Product design intuition and user empathy
- Confidential (Registered Users Only)-sentence="">Drive to push the boundaries of Android UI/UX
- Confidential (Registered Users Only)-sentence="">Understanding of the importance of tests and how to approach writing tests
- Confidential (Registered Users Only)-sentence="">Self-drive to improve the app and codebase above and beyond what's outlined in the spec
- Confidential (Registered Users Only)-sentence="">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
- Confidential (Registered Users Only)-sentence="">Excellent communication skills
- Confidential (Registered Users Only)-sentence="">User oriented problem solving approach
- Confidential (Registered Users Only)-sentence="">Driven with continuous feedback from leaders
Confidential (Registered Users Only)-sentence="">Bonus:
- Confidential (Registered Users Only)-sentence="">Experience building, maintaining, or otherwise contributing to open source projects in Android
- Confidential (Registered Users Only)-sentence="">Experience with iOS, Web or NodeJS
Confidential (Registered Users Only)-sentence="">Technologies we use:
- Confidential (Registered Users Only)-sentence="">Kotlin
- Confidential (Registered Users Only)-sentence="">Kotlin Coroutines
- Confidential (Registered Users Only)-sentence="">Kotlin Flow
- Confidential (Registered Users Only)-sentence="">Jetpack Navigation
- Confidential (Registered Users Only)-sentence="">Dagger 2
- Confidential (Registered Users Only)-sentence="">Room
- Confidential (Registered Users Only)-sentence="">Custom Views, Canvas & Paint
- Confidential (Registered Users Only)-sentence="">Jetpack Compose
- Confidential (Registered Users Only)-sentence="">JUnit
Confidential (Registered Users Only)-sentence="">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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Confidential (Registered Users Only) is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace.
Confidential (Registered Users Only) 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.