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 Platform team seeks a Senior Software Engineer. This role is central to ensuring our success at Speechify by working on key features like: Payments, Analytics, Subscriptions and our API. 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
- Design, develop, and maintain robust APIs including Public TTS API, Internal APIs like Payment, Subscription, Auth and Consumption Tracking, ensuring they meet business and scalability requirements.
- Oversee the full backend API landscape, enhancing and optimizing for performance and maintainability.
- Collaborate on B2B solutions, focusing on customization and integration needs for enterprise clients.
- Work closely with cross-functional teams to align backend architecture with overall product strategy and user experience.
An Ideal Candidate Should Have
- Proven experience in backend development: TS/Node (required), Go (nice to have)
- Direct experience with GCP and knowledge of AWS, Azure, or other cloud providers.
- Efficiency in ideation and implementation, prioritizing tasks based on urgency and impact.
- Preferred: Experience with Docker and containerized deployments.
- Preferred: Proficiency in deploying high availability applications on Kubernetes
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
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.
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Check out open jobs here: https://careers.speechify.com/
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