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.

Required:

• 3+ in Windows desktop application development using Windows App SDK, WinUI (or similar), C#, XAML — and ideally additional experience with native Windows code (C++, Win32/WinRT/COM).
• Deep understanding of Windows application architecture, including interop between managed code (.NET) and native code.
• Proven track record of designing, building, and shipping production-quality desktop applications, with an emphasis on reliability, performance, scalability, and maintainability.
• Strong experience with accessibility APIs on Windows (e.g. Microsoft UI Automation or similar), and a dedication to building accessible and inclusive software.
• Excellent software engineering fundamentals: OOP, design patterns, data structures, algorithms, memory management, multi-threading or asynchronous programming (where relevant).
• Experience leading technical design, mentoring other engineers, conducting code reviews, and making architecture-level decisions.
• Strong communication skills; ability to articulate tradeoffs, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and drive consensus.
• A user-centric mindset: focus on building polished, intuitive, and accessible experiences for end users.

Preferred / Bonus:

• Experience with writing automated tests for UI — unit tests, integration tests, UI automation tests; familiarity with relevant testing frameworks.
• Experience with performance optimization for desktop apps (memory usage, startup time, rendering performance, high-DPI support, responsiveness under load).
• Experience with localization/globalization, right-to-left UI support, internationalization, accessibility for multiple regions.
• Familiarity with telemetry, analytics, crash reporting, logging, and error monitoring in desktop applications.
• Previous experience in shaping CI/CD workflows, release pipelines, and deployment strategies for desktop applications.
• Demonstrated ability to take ownership of feature areas or modules and drive them long-term, including maintenance, refactoring, and technical debt management.

What we offer

• A high-impact role: you will define architecture, shape the future of our Windows product, and directly influence what millions of users see and experience.
• A collaborative, flat-structure engineering culture — you are not just a coder, but a builder and a decision-maker.
• Opportunities to lead — mentor others, steer technical direction, and grow into broader technical leadership (e.g. Tech Lead, Architect).
• Flexibility, autonomy, and responsibility: you define how to solve problems, own features end-to-end, and contribute to long-term product vision.
• A purpose-driven mission: building software that’s reliable, accessible, and user-centered — making a real difference for people.                  

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.

About the Team   

Agoda’s Customer Experience Group delivers critical support to customers and partners across markets, channels, and business lines. As our operations scale in complexity, Senior Regional Managers play a pivotal role in ensuring regional resiliency, standardization, and sustained performance across multiple sites and partners.   
  
About the Role   

The Senior Regional Manager is accountable for end-to-end performance of a regional customer/partner operations area, typically spanning multiple countries, sites, or vendor partners. This role translates company strategy into a cohesive regional roadmap, balances cross site tradeoffs, and ensures consistent, high quality service delivery at scale.   

You will act as the regional authority on customer operations performance, risks, and improvement initiatives, while developing strong leadership benches and resilient operating models.   

Key Responsibilities   

Regional & Operational Ownership  

• Lead multi-site, multi-country customer operations (including inhouse and BPO partners where applicable) 
• Own end to end regional outcomes, including service quality, efficiency, resiliency, and cost to serve 
• Balance cross site tradeoffs across capacity, language coverage, channel mix, routing, and vendor strategy    

Strategy & Roadmap   

• Translate CEG strategy into a 12–18 month regional roadmap, prioritizing initiatives that deliver measurable customer and business impact 
• Anticipate demand shifts (seasonality, launches, policy or regulatory changes) and lead proactive regional adjustments 
• Sponsor and govern cross site initiatives to ensure consistency and scalability   

Improvement, Innovation & Resiliency   

• Scale adoption of tools, technologies, and best practices across sites 
• Institutionalize experimentation standards, operational rigor, and learning across the regional leadership team 
• Strengthen regional resiliency through standardized playbooks (e.g. surge, BCP, knowledge governance)   

Stakeholder Leadership   

• Serve as the regional “go to” for customer operations performance, risks, and initiatives 
• Bring together WFM, QA, Training, Analytics, Product/Tech, Policy, and Commercial partners to land regionwide solutions 
• Communicate regional performance, scenarios, and recommendations to senior stakeholders with minimal supervision   

People & Organization Leadership   

• Lead through Regional Managers and/or Vendor Managers, setting a high bar for performance management and leadership capability 
• Design and evolve regional org structures, language pools, and shift strategies to meet KPIs 
• Build successor ready pipelines, enable cross site talent mobility, and develop future senior leaders 
• Address underperformance decisively, fairly, and in line with Agoda values   

What You’ll Bring   

• Excellent spoken and written Japanese skills, and Business level of English
• Extensive demonstrated experience leading largescale, multisite or multi-country operations 
• Proven ability to own regional outcomes and manage complexity across markets and partners 
• Strategic thinking combined with operational execution excellence with strong analytical and experimentation mindset   
• Demonstrated ability and willingness to dive into detail to understand issue complexity, propose actionable plans, and collaborate effectively with stakeholders
• Advanced stakeholder management and influencing skills, including Senior Leadership exposure 
• A track record of developing leaders and building resilient organizations   

Nice to Have   

• Experience managing outsourced/vendor operations at scale
• Deep exposure to regulatory-complex or high-growth markets  

Why Agoda  

• Hybrid Work 
• Competitive compensation with performance-based incentives
• Annual discretionary performance bonus
• Health insurance and other locally competitive benefits
• Agoda travel discounts and special rates on accommodation and related products
• Work from anywhere for up to 30 days per year
• An inclusive, international work environment where your ideas and feedback are valued
• Agoda choice(welfare points)
• $400 USD allowance to set up your home office(one time payment) 

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