Staff Software Engineer, AI Inference

Posted 4 Days Ago
Hiring Remotely in USA
Remote
Senior level
Software
The Role
The Senior Backend Engineer will be responsible for developing Node.js services and operating machine learning inference workloads for AI Voices. They will ensure efficient scaling of infrastructure and optimization of product flows within a dynamic environment.
Summary Generated by Built In

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

As Speechify expands, our AI team seeks a Staff Backend Engineer. This role is central to ensuring our infrastructure scales efficiently, optimizing key product flows, and constructing resilient end-to-end systems. If you are passionate about strategizing, enjoy high-paced environments, and are eager to take ownership of product decisions, we’d love to hear from you.

What You’ll Do

  • Work alongside machine learning researchers, engineers, and product managers to bring our AI Voices to their customers for a diverse range of use cases.
  • Deploy and operate the core ML inference workloads for our AI Voices serving pipeline.
  • Introduce new techniques, tools, and architecture that improve the performance, latency, throughput, and efficiency of our deployed models.
  • Build tools to give us visibility into our bottlenecks and sources of instability and then design and implement solutions to address the highest priority issues.

An Ideal Candidate Should Have

  • Experience shipping Python-based services
  • Experience being responsible for the successful operation of a critical production service
  • Experience with public cloud environments, GCP preferred
  • Experience with Infrastructure such as Code, Docker, and containerized deployments.
  • Preferred: Experience deploying high-availability applications on Kubernetes.
  • Preferred: Experience deploying ML models to production

What We Offer

  • A dynamic environment where your contributions shape the company and its products.
  • A team that values innovation, intuition, and drive.
  • Autonomy, fostering focus and creativity.
  • The opportunity to have a significant impact in a revolutionary industry.
  • Competitive compensation, a welcoming atmosphere, and a commitment to an exceptional asynchronous work culture.
  • The privilege of working on a product that changes lives, particularly for those with learning differences like dyslexia, ADD, and more.
  • An active role at the intersection of artificial intelligence and audio – a rapidly evolving tech domain.

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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.

Top Skills

Node.js
Typescript
The Company
HQ: Remote, OR
96 Employees
On-site Workplace
Year Founded: 2017

What We Do


Speechify is a text-to-speech app that makes it easy for the world to access information. 10+ million people now use the Google Chrome extension and iOS and Android mobile apps.

Our amazing users are students, professionals, and productivity lovers. Many of them have learning differences like dyslexia and ADHD, while many just want to read faster and listen on the go. With Speechify you can turn any book, document, or website into audio, and listen while you’re in the car, doing laundry, walking your dog, making dinner, working out, skydiving—whatever your daily routine is! Speechify also powers Medium, the Star Tribune, The Direct, and more. Easily add text-to-speech to your website.

Cliff Weitzman, our fearless CEO, founded Speechify in 2017 in a dorm room at Brown University so he could share with others the incredible text-to-speech software he’d been working on. Cliff has dyslexia and he was frustrated with how much time and energy it took for him to read. Advanced TTS technology was a total gamechanger, it allowed him to finish his readings 3x faster than a normal reader and to better comprehend and retain information.

At Speechify our goal is for reading to never be a barrier to learning for anyone. Nothing should hold you back from learning information quickly and effectively.

Speechify has grown to employ over 100 team members spread out across the globe in just a few short years. We're proud of the incredible team with members who were previously leaders and senior engineers at companies like Snapchat, Apple, Spotify, Amazon & Uber. We all love and prioritise ownership, delivering value with speed, learning as much as we can and making our users feel empowered.

Our Leadership Principles: https://bit.ly/3uxj4uO

Check out open jobs here: https://careers.speechify.com/

Download our iOS app: https://apple.co/39batpR

Try our free Chrome extension: https://bit.ly/3PW3L7X

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