Location: Shanghai, China (Global Engineering Hub) Organization Size: ~30 Engineers | 2–3 Engineering Managers

Position Summary

As the Senior Engineering Manager for the Mobile App team, you will be the strategic lead for our mobile engineering organization. You will move the team from a "task-driven" unit to a "mission-driven" powerhouse, overseeing the development and optimization of our native iOS and Android applications. You will be responsible for a team of approximately 30 engineers through a "manager of managers" structure, ensuring that our mobile platforms deliver elite-level customer experiences, performance, and stability for our global e-commerce audience.

Key Responsibilities

Strategic Leadership & Team Growth

• Team Evolution:Directly manage and mentor 2–3 Engineering Managers; cultivate a high-performing, autonomous culture focused on ownership, continuous learning, and digital fluency.
• Talent Strategy:Lead talent and succession planning, identifying internal high-potentials and utilizing strategic global sourcing to ensure team resilience.
• Culture Reshaping:Reset the organization’s culture from "executing tickets" to "owning outcomes," fostering a mission-driven mindset that eliminates cross-functional friction.

Operational Excellence & Execution

• Delivery Governance:Oversee project execution from concept to deployment, ensuring on-time, high-quality delivery across high-stakes initiatives.
• Agile Execution:Implement sophisticated performance frameworks to measure real engineering health, flow efficiency, and developer experience.
• Cross-Functional Alignment:Serve as a strategic partner to Product Managers, UX Designers, and other domain software managers to align the mobile roadmap with overarching business objectives.

Technical Innovation & Architecture

• Native Excellence:Drive the technical vision for native iOS (Swift) and Android (Kotlin) platforms, ensuring a modular, scalable architecture that minimizes technical debt.
• AI-Native SDLC:Lead the integration of AI-augmented development workflows (e.g., Claude Code, Kiro, Snyk/Figma MCP) to serve as a force multiplier for testing, documentation, and code generation.
• System Integrity:Ensure robust monitoring, logging, and governance to maintain industry-leading standards for app stability, security, and performance.

Required Qualifications

• Experience:12+ years of software engineering experience, with at least 5+ years in a people leadership role managing multiple teams or managers.
• Technical Mastery:Deep, hands-on expertise in Native Mobile Development (iOS/Swift and Android/Kotlin) is a must. You should have a proven track record of moving from a Principal Engineer to a Senior Leadership role.
• Domain Expertise:Prior experience in a fast-paced e-commerce or consumer-facing digital environment is highly preferred.
• Architectural Depth:Strong understanding of mobile app lifecycles, app store processes, RESTful APIs, and modern DevOps practices (CI/CD, observability).
• Education:Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.

What You’ll Bring

• Business Intelligence:The ability to translate complex technical decisions into business value (revenue, margin, and retention) for executive leadership.
• Innovation Mindset:A passion for staying ahead of tech trends—including Agentic AI and Multi-Agent Orchestration—and the vision to apply them to real-world business problems.
• Collaborative Style:An influential leadership style that builds trust across distributed global teams and fosters a culture of technical rigor.

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The mission of Speechify is to make sure that reading is never a barrier to learning.

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 2025.

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.

Overview

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.

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. 

Our interview process involves several technical interviews and we aim to complete them within 1 week. 

What You’ll Do

• 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
• 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
• Handle critical issues or cope with unexpected challenges 
• Take ownership of feature releases and provide nightly builds for the QA team

An Ideal Candidate Should Have

• 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, Kotlin Coroutines, Kotlin Flow, Dagger 2, MVVM, Clean Architecture, Background Services, Music Player Service, Android Animations, Jetpack Navigation, JUnit tests
• Excellent communication skills
• User oriented problem solving approach
• Driven with continuous feedback from leaders

Bonus:

• 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
• Jetpack Navigation
• Dagger 2
• Room
• Custom Views, Canvas & Paint
• Jetpack Compose
• JUnit

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.

Think you’re a good fit for this job? 

Tell us more about yourself and why you're interested in the role when you apply.
And don’t forget to include links to your portfolio and LinkedIn.

Not looking but know someone who would make a great fit? 

Refer them! 

Speechify is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. 

Speechify 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.

Mission

Speechify is the easiest way to listen to the world’s information. Articles on the web, documents in the cloud, books on your phone. We absorb it all and let you listen to it at your desk, on the go, at your own speed, and with tools that make learning easier, deeper, and faster.

What streaming services have done for audio entertainment, we’re doing for audio information. And whatever we’re doing seems to be working. We’re #1 in our category, and experiencing exponential growth.

Overview

We're looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our Core Experiences Team. This team builds and maintains the foundational services and SDKs that power Speechify’s product experience across platforms. It's a critical role for someone who enjoys working at the intersection of product and infrastructure, thinks strategically, and is passionate about designing clear, reliable APIs and simple systems that directly enhance the user experience.

What You’ll Do

• Collaborate with Speechify’s Product Teams to scope projects, find ways to reduce scope to get faster feedback from customers, navigate the integration/UX tradeoffs relevant to different product teams, and deliver solutions via our cross-platform SDK
• Optimize existing functionality to ship things like faster loading and more intelligent parsing by designing more efficient abstractions and improving our algorithms
• Ship cloud functions, lightweight backend services, and jobs using Kotlin

An Ideal Candidate Should Have

• Systems thinking. You know that optimizing a system requires end-to-end design, and you believe simplicity is valuable.
• Speed. You work quickly to generate ideas and options and know how to decide which things can ship now and what things need time
• Focus. We’re a high-growth startup with a busy, remote team. You know how and when to engage or be heads down
• Collaboration. You know how to inspire, play, and negotiate with opinionated designers, marketers, and PMs
• Preferred Tech Stack:
  • Kotlin Multiplatform (Java experience is OK but role is Kotlin Multiplatform) 
  • Prior experience with GCP is a plus

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.

Think you’re a good fit for this job? 

Tell us more about yourself and why you're interested in the role when you apply.
And don’t forget to include links to your portfolio and LinkedIn.

Not looking but know someone who would make a great fit? 

Refer them! 

Speechify is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. 

Speechify 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.

Scopely's Security team is looking for an Anticheat Engineer to build a new client security function in China. You will design and ship client/server-side protections for large-scale mobile games, combat sophisticated cheating ecosystems, and help ensure fair play for tens of millions of players.

What You Will Do

• Build, and grow the Client Security team in China, setting China specific technical direction, and operational best practices.
• Design, implement, and maintain client-side detections against third‑party cheating tools, modified clients, hooking frameworks, and emulators on Android and iOS.
• Own the client security integration into Scopely's internal anti-cheat platforms working closely with teams to ensure detections are actionable and scalable.
• Define and evolve the obfuscation and hardening strategy for China mobile builds (e.g., binary protection, anti-debugging, anti-tamper, integrity checks), including evaluating and integrating third‑party hardening vendors where appropriate.
• Build and maintain strong coverage for the China mobile ecosystem, including:
• distribution through multiple Android app stores and OEM devices,
• diverse OS/ROM variants and rooted/jailbroken environments,
• and local PC/emulator-based cheating patterns.
• Contribute hands-on code (C++ plus Java/Kotlin and/or Objective‑C/Swift) in security‑sensitive paths, including detection logic, integrity checks, and secure client–server protocols.

What We’re Looking For

• Experience in mobile security, game anti-cheat, or client-side security engineering, including time working directly on Android or iOS native code.
• Direct experience with reverse engineering.
• Deep hands-on experience with:
• Android and IOS internals 
• hooking and instrumentation frameworks,
• and common mobile client security attack vectors.
• Strong proficiency in C/C++ and at least one mobile native language (Java/Kotlin for Android or Objective‑C/Swift for iOS), including experience shipping production code in large apps.
• Demonstrated experience designing and shipping client-side anti-cheat or integrity systems that integrate with server-side enforcement or analytics pipelines.
• Prior experience ing or technically directing a small engineering team 
• Experience working with large-scale telemetry or anti-abuse pipelines and using data to tune detections and reduce false positives.
• Professional proficiency in both Mandarin and English, written and spoken
• Requires five days per week in the office

Bonus Points

• BS / MS in Computer Science or Software Engineering or equivalent
• Experience shipping and securing mobile games or other large-scale consumer apps specific to the China market, specific exposure to:
• multiple Android app-store ecosystems and OEM variations,
• desktop/mobile emulator usage patterns,
• and tooling development experience specific for china mobile games 
• Previous CTF experience, and CVE contributing experience
• Prior work on client obfuscation / hardening pipelines, including vendor evaluation and integration, and handling performance and stability tradeoffs.
• Familiarity with large-scale cloud environments, streaming data processing, and monitoring/alerting

Scopely is looking for a Client Engineer to join an unannounced title based in our Shanghai office (5 days in the office).

At Scopely, we care deeply about what we do and want to inspire play, every day - whether in our work environments alongside our talented colleagues, or through our deep connections with our communities of players. We are a global team of game lovers who are developing, publishing and innovating the mobile games industry, connecting millions of people around the world daily. 

We are in the early stages of development on an ambitious mobile game in China, and we’re assembling a team of passionate game makers to craft unforgettable characters and immersive adventures that players will love.

What You Will Do

We are looking for a Client Engineer to help build the next generation of our games. You will work with a team of passionate engineers while developing core systems and features that power large-scale, real-time experiences for our unannounced game title. You’ll work on complex technical challenges involving real-time interaction, large-scale systems, and a persistent shared world used by tens of millions of players.

• Develop, and maintain key client-side components that enable rich, scalable game experiences.
• Partner closely with server, product, design, and other cross-functional teams to ensure technical alignment and product quality.
• Apply engineering best practices, including code reviews, unit testing, load testing, and performance optimization.
• Troubleshoot complex issues across mobile platforms to ensure stability and uptime for live systems.
• Participate in regular in-person meetings and collaboration sessions (role requires 5 days/week in office).

What We're Looking For

• Experience developing commercial games in Unity, C#
• Experience with at least one of the following: 
• Mobile native coding (Java/Kotlin for Android, ObjC/Swift for iOS, C/C++ for native)
• Network programming, cloud computing and server debugging
• Graphics programming for 3D games
• Familiar with Git, Bash and Gradle
• Strong problem solving and communication skills
• Professional proficiency in both Mandarin and English
• BS / MS in Computer Science or Software Engineering or equivalent

Bonus Points 

• Experience with profiling and optimization for mobile
• Experience with developing productivity tools and creating efficient procedures
• Rich experience in playing mobile games and console games
• Experience leading a team: task breakdown&scoping, code reviews, mentoring junior devs, prototyping, etc.
• Excellent verbal English communication

At Scopely, we create games for everyone - and want to ensure that the people behind our games reflect that!   We are committed to creating a diverse, supportive work environment where everyone is treated with respect. We are committed to providing equal employment opportunities and welcome individuals from all backgrounds to join us & embrace the adventure!

Would you like to get hands-on experience with the latest technologies and gain insight into industry-changing software development tools? Are you keen to diversify your skill set and expand your professional network? Join our team and become a JetBrains Campus Ambassador in China!

At JetBrains, code is our passion. Ever since we started back in 2000, we have strived to make the strongest, most effective developer tools on earth. By automating routine checks and corrections, our tools speed up production, freeing developers to grow, discover, and create.

We are looking for a passionate leader to help us raise awareness about JetBrains tools and Kotlin in China's universities and colleges.

If you are pursuing an undergraduate or graduate university degree and are familiar with JetBrains software development tools, such as IntelliJ IDEA, PyCharm, CLion, and others, this might be an exciting opportunity for you. In this role, you’ll be able to share your experience of JetBrains products with your peers and help us spread the word that JetBrains provides tools to students for free.

As part of our team, you will:

• As a student expert, you will host student meetups, workshops, and Q&A sessions, delivering talks on cool technologies that showcase JetBrains tools.
• Coordinate JetBrains’ participation in student conferences, campus competitions, hackathons, and similar events.
• Set up a student club, mentor peers, and build a community of passionate students.
• Collaborate with fellow JetBrains Campus Ambassadors worldwide.

We expect that you:

• Are currently enrolled in Computer Science or a related technical field, with a background in software development.
• Are familiar with and have a passion for JetBrains tools and are eager to share that passion with others.
• Have excellent communication and public speaking skills.
• Experience planning events or leading a team would be a plus.

With this position, you will gain:

• Access to a network of product and technology experts from JetBrains who can mentor you and share their expertise.
• Practical experience in activity organization, coordination and communication with students
• Gain a first-mover advantage in your career path and expand your communication network in the global technology ecosystem
• Use all JetBrains tools and technologies for free to help you and your peers move forward

This is a part-time position based at the China Universities campus.

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