At Speechify, our mission is to ensure reading is never a barrier to learning. Over 50 million people use Speechify’s text-to-speech products—including apps on iOS, Android, macOS, Chrome, and web—to listen to PDFs, books, docs, and web content faster, smarter, and more joyfully than ever before. Our product has earned recognition from Google (Chrome Extension of the Year) and Apple (App of the Day and 2025 Inclusivity Design Award) for its impact and accessibility.
We’re a fully remote, distributed team of engineers, designers, researchers, and product builders from world-class companies like Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Stripe, and more. We move fast, ship often, and love solving real user problems.
Role OverviewAs a Software Engineer on the macOS team, you’ll help build and scale Speechify’s core desktop experience for millions of users. You’ll own significant parts of our macOS app architecture, ship production-ready code, and collaborate closely with product, design, and engineering teams across the company.
This is a key role for someone who thrives in a fast-paced startup environment, enjoys making high-impact product decisions, loves delightful user experiences, and has a passion for accessibility and performance.
What You’ll Do
- Lead key engineering and product decisions for the macOS app.
- Write, test, and ship production-quality code that scales to millions of users.
- Maintain and evolve complex app architecture with a focus on performance and stability.
- Work within a cross-functional team, partnering with designers and PMs to shape features from concept to launch.
- Participate in product planning and roadmap discussions.
- Drive continuous improvement in code quality, CI/CD processes, and development workflows.
You should have:
- Demonstrated experience shipping macOS (or related desktop) applications used by many customers.
- Strong engineering instincts with a deep focus on user experience.
- A strategic mindset for building great products—not just writing code.
- Ability to work quickly, decide what to build now vs. later, and iterate fast.
- Experience working in remote, distributed teams.
Technical requirements:
- Swift / SwiftUI (macOS) proficiency.
- Solid understanding of AppKit, macOS frameworks, and desktop-specific UI paradigms.
- Strong understanding of concurrency and asynchronous execution models
- Familiarity with Bitrise, CI/CD workflows (e.g., Xcode Cloud, GitHub Actions).
- Strong understanding of concurrency and asynchronous execution models
What We offer:
- Impact & Ownership: Build and influence a product used by millions globally.
- Remote First: Flexible, asynchronous work culture.
- Growth & Leadership: Flat org — leadership is earned by impact, not title.
- Collaborative Environment: Work with smart, passionate engineers and designers.
- Competitive Compensation: Market-aligned salary, bonus, and equity.
The United States Based Salary range for this role is: 140,000-200,000 USD/Year + Bonus + Stock depending on experience
Why Join Speechify?At Speechify, we ship fast, build for real users, and care deeply about quality and accessibility. You’ll work on products that change lives, and your contributions will shape both the product and the company.
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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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