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Build and maintain foundational services and SDKs for product experience across platforms, focusing on system design, API development, and cloud functions. | Experience with system design, API development, cloud services, and preferably Kotlin Multiplatform; strong collaboration skills. | 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. The United States Based Salary range for this role is: 140,000-200,000 USD/Year + Bonus + Stock depending on experience 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.
Design, develop, and maintain backend APIs including TTS, payments, subscriptions, and collaborate on B2B solutions while aligning backend architecture with product strategy. | Proven backend development experience with TypeScript/Node.js, knowledge of GCP and other cloud providers, and preferred experience with Docker and Kubernetes deployments. | 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 2025 Design Award winner for Inclusivity. 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 The responsibilities of our Platform team include building and maintaining all backend services, including, but not limited to, payments, analytics, subscriptions, new products, text to speech, and external APIs. This is a key role and ideal for someone who thinks strategically, enjoys fast-paced environments, is 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 • 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) • 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 The United States Based Salary range for this role is: 140,000-200,000 USD/Year + Bonus + Stock depending on experience 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.
Design and maintain foundational services and SDKs, collaborate with product teams, optimize functionality, and ship cloud functions and backend services. | Senior-level experience with systems thinking, speed, focus, collaboration, and preferably Kotlin Multiplatform and GCP experience. | 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. The United States Based Salary range for this role is: 140,000-200,000 USD/Year + Bonus + Stock depending on experience 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.
Own and deliver major Android app features, collaborate with design and product teams, maintain app reliability, and support teammates. | 5+ years software engineering experience with strong Android app development skills in Kotlin and related technologies, excellent communication, and user-focused problem solving. | 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. The United States Based Salary range for this role is: 140,000-200,000 USD/Year + Bonus + Stock depending on experience 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.
Own and deliver major Android app features, maintain reliability, collaborate with design and product teams, review code, and handle critical issues. | 5+ years software engineering with Android app experience, strong Kotlin and Android framework skills, product design intuition, testing knowledge, and excellent communication. | 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. The United States Based Salary range for this role is: 140,000-200,000 USD/Year + Bonus + Stock depending on experience 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.
Own and deliver major Android app features, collaborate with design and product teams, maintain app reliability, and support teammates. | 5+ years software engineering experience with strong Android app development skills in Kotlin and related technologies, excellent communication, and user-focused problem solving. | 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. The United States Based Salary range for this role is: 140,000-200,000 USD/Year + Bonus + Stock depending on experience 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.
Design and maintain foundational services and SDKs for cross-platform product experiences, collaborate with product teams to scope and deliver solutions, and optimize system performance and user experience. | Senior-level experience with systems thinking, speed, focus, collaboration skills, and preferably Kotlin Multiplatform and GCP experience. | 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. The United States Based Salary range for this role is: 140,000-200,000 USD/Year + Bonus + Stock depending on experience 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.
Lead engineering and product decisions, actively ship production code for the iOS app, participate in product discussions, and maintain complex app architecture. | Senior iOS engineer with experience in Swift, SwiftUI, multithreading, CI/CD, Fastlane, SOLID principles, and Git. | 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 App of the Day. 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 iOS app, being the #18 productivity app in the App Store category and also our recent recognition as Apple's 2025 Design Award for inclusivity, we find the need for a Senior iOS Engineer to help us support the new user base as well as work on new and exciting projects to push our missing 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 • Opportunity to lead key engineering and product decisions • Actively shipping production code for the Speechify iOS app • Work within a dedicated product team • Participate in product discussions to shape the product roadmap • Maintain and enhance the existing complex app architecture An Ideal Candidate Should Have • Experience. You've worked on products that scaled to a large user base • Track record. You have worked on various products from inception to decent traction. You have been responsible for engineering the product • Customer obsession. We expect every team member whose responsibilities directly impact customers to be constantly obsessed about providing the best possible experience • Product thinking. You make thoughtful decisions about the evolution of your product and support internal teams and designers into taking the right direction • Speed. You work quickly to generate ideas 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 • Technical skills. Swift, SwiftUI Technical Requirements: • Swift Programming Language • SwiftUI experience • Experience in Multithreading Programming • Working with CI/CD infrastructure • Experience with Fastlane • SOLID principles, the ability to write every single class according to SOLID • Experience with Git and understanding of different Git strategies What We offer: • A fast-growing environment where you can help shape the company and product • An entrepreneurial crew that supports risk, intuition, and hustle • The opportunity to make a big impact in a transformative industry • A competitive salary, a collegiate atmosphere, and a commitment to building a great asynchronous culture • Work on a product that millions of people use and where daily feedback includes users sharing that they cried when they first found the product because it was so impactful on their lives • Support people with learning differences like Dyslexia, ADD, Low Vision, Concussions, Autism, and Second Language Learners, and give reading superpowers to professionals all over the world • Work in one of the fastest growing sectors of tech: Intersection of Artificial Intelligence and Audio The United States Based Salary range for this role is: 140,000-200,000 USD/Year + Bonus + Stock depending on experience 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.
Lead engineering and product decisions, actively ship production code for the iOS app, participate in product discussions, and maintain complex app architecture. | Senior iOS engineer with experience in Swift, SwiftUI, multithreading, CI/CD, Fastlane, SOLID principles, and Git, capable of shipping scalable products and working in a fast-paced remote startup environment. | 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 App of the Day. 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 iOS app, being the #18 productivity app in the App Store category and also our recent recognition as Apple's 2025 Design Award for inclusivity, we find the need for a Senior iOS Engineer to help us support the new user base as well as work on new and exciting projects to push our missing 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 • Opportunity to lead key engineering and product decisions • Actively shipping production code for the Speechify iOS app • Work within a dedicated product team • Participate in product discussions to shape the product roadmap • Maintain and enhance the existing complex app architecture An Ideal Candidate Should Have • Experience. You've worked on products that scaled to a large user base • Track record. You have worked on various products from inception to decent traction. You have been responsible for engineering the product • Customer obsession. We expect every team member whose responsibilities directly impact customers to be constantly obsessed about providing the best possible experience • Product thinking. You make thoughtful decisions about the evolution of your product and support internal teams and designers into taking the right direction • Speed. You work quickly to generate ideas 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 • Technical skills. Swift, SwiftUI Technical Requirements: • Swift Programming Language • SwiftUI experience • Experience in Multithreading Programming • Working with CI/CD infrastructure • Experience with Fastlane • SOLID principles, the ability to write every single class according to SOLID • Experience with Git and understanding of different Git strategies What We offer: • A fast-growing environment where you can help shape the company and product • An entrepreneurial crew that supports risk, intuition, and hustle • The opportunity to make a big impact in a transformative industry • A competitive salary, a collegiate atmosphere, and a commitment to building a great asynchronous culture • Work on a product that millions of people use and where daily feedback includes users sharing that they cried when they first found the product because it was so impactful on their lives • Support people with learning differences like Dyslexia, ADD, Low Vision, Concussions, Autism, and Second Language Learners, and give reading superpowers to professionals all over the world • Work in one of the fastest growing sectors of tech: Intersection of Artificial Intelligence and Audio The United States Based Salary range for this role is: 140,000-200,000 USD/Year + Bonus + Stock depending on experience 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.
Design and maintain foundational services and SDKs, optimize functionality, and ship cloud functions and backend services using Kotlin. | Experience with Kotlin Multiplatform (or Java), systems thinking, speed, focus, collaboration, and preferably GCP experience. | 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. Compensation: The US base salary range for this full-time position is $140,000-$200,000 + bonus + equity depending on experience 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.
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