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Software Engineer, Platform - Berkeley, CA, USA

Speechify•Anywhere•Full-time
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Compensation$85K - 130K a year

Design, build, and maintain backend APIs and optimize services for performance and scalability. | Proven backend experience with TypeScript and Node.js, cloud platform experience, and strong system architecture judgment. | 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. Overview The Platform team owns the backend behind everything Speechify ships: the public TTS API, payments, subscriptions, auth, consumption tracking, and analytics — serving over 50 million users across iOS, Android, Mac, Chrome, and web. These are systems where correctness compounds. Subscription state has to stay consistent across five clients and two app-store billing systems that each go quiet at the worst moment. Consumption metering has to be exact enough to bill on and cheap enough to run at our request volume. The public TTS API has external customers with their own products depending on our latency and uptime. None of this degrades gracefully — it is either right, or someone gets charged twice. The job is to make your own job smaller. Every system you own here should need less of you a year from now than it did the day you took it, and the reward for that is a larger one. That is the entire growth path on this team — there is no separate ladder, and no ceiling except the one you stop raising. We are a flat organization: people become leaders here by taking scope and being right about it, fast. What You’ll Do Design, build, and own the APIs behind payments, subscriptions, auth, consumption tracking, and our public TTS API Take on services you didn't write and make them faster, cheaper, and harder to break Establish that a change is correct before it ships, and leave behind the checks that keep it correct after you've moved on Automate the parts of your role that shouldn't need a person, then go take on what that freed you up for Turn work you've done once into work the whole team can repeat Design B2B and enterprise integrations for customers building on top of us Work with product, mobile, and web to keep backend architecture ahead of where the product is going An Ideal Candidate Should Have Proven backend experience in TS/Node (required) Direct experience with GCP; working knowledge of AWS, Azure, or another cloud A habit of giving away work you used to own, and something to show for the room it created A daily working setup with AI agents you can describe in detail — what runs unattended, what you review, and where you've decided it doesn't get to act alone The instinct to check a result against the system itself — logs, database state, the actual request — rather than against a summary of it Judgment about what not to build, and the ability to say plainly why you dropped it A preference for being corrected over being right Preferred: Docker and containerized deployments Preferred: deploying high-availability applications on Kubernetes Interview process Several technical interviews plus a take-home assessment on a real codebase. We aim to finish within a week. The assessment runs in two stages: you'll submit, get real feedback from an engineer on this team, and have time to act on it. Use the tools you use every day. You'll be asked to walk through your reasoning, so bring it. 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.

TypeScript
API design
Backend development
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Posted about 1 month ago
Speechify

Software Engineer, Platform - Anaheim, CA, USA

Speechify•Anywhere•Full-time
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Compensation$70K - 120K a year

Design, build, and own backend APIs and optimize systems for performance and scalability while collaborating with cross-functional teams. | Proven backend experience in TypeScript and Node.js, experience with GCP, strong system design judgment, automation skills, and ability to maintain high-availability applications. | 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. Overview The Platform team owns the backend behind everything Speechify ships: the public TTS API, payments, subscriptions, auth, consumption tracking, and analytics — serving over 50 million users across iOS, Android, Mac, Chrome, and web. These are systems where correctness compounds. Subscription state has to stay consistent across five clients and two app-store billing systems that each go quiet at the worst moment. Consumption metering has to be exact enough to bill on and cheap enough to run at our request volume. The public TTS API has external customers with their own products depending on our latency and uptime. None of this degrades gracefully — it is either right, or someone gets charged twice. The job is to make your own job smaller. Every system you own here should need less of you a year from now than it did the day you took it, and the reward for that is a larger one. That is the entire growth path on this team — there is no separate ladder, and no ceiling except the one you stop raising. We are a flat organization: people become leaders here by taking scope and being right about it, fast. What You’ll Do Design, build, and own the APIs behind payments, subscriptions, auth, consumption tracking, and our public TTS API Take on services you didn't write and make them faster, cheaper, and harder to break Establish that a change is correct before it ships, and leave behind the checks that keep it correct after you've moved on Automate the parts of your role that shouldn't need a person, then go take on what that freed you up for Turn work you've done once into work the whole team can repeat Design B2B and enterprise integrations for customers building on top of us Work with product, mobile, and web to keep backend architecture ahead of where the product is going An Ideal Candidate Should Have Proven backend experience in TS/Node (required) Direct experience with GCP; working knowledge of AWS, Azure, or another cloud A habit of giving away work you used to own, and something to show for the room it created A daily working setup with AI agents you can describe in detail — what runs unattended, what you review, and where you've decided it doesn't get to act alone The instinct to check a result against the system itself — logs, database state, the actual request — rather than against a summary of it Judgment about what not to build, and the ability to say plainly why you dropped it A preference for being corrected over being right Preferred: Docker and containerized deployments Preferred: deploying high-availability applications on Kubernetes Interview process Several technical interviews plus a take-home assessment on a real codebase. We aim to finish within a week. The assessment runs in two stages: you'll submit, get real feedback from an engineer on this team, and have time to act on it. Use the tools you use every day. You'll be asked to walk through your reasoning, so bring it. 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.

TypeScript
Node.js
API Design
System Architecture
Backend Development
Direct Apply
Posted about 1 month ago
SP

Software Engineer, Platform - Fort Worth, TX, USA

Speechify•Anywhere•Full-time
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Compensation$55K - 120K a year

Design, build, and maintain backend APIs and optimize services for performance and scalability while automating processes. | Proven backend experience in TypeScript/Node.js, strong system architecture judgment, and experience with GCP. | 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. Overview The Platform team owns the backend behind everything Speechify ships: the public TTS API, payments, subscriptions, auth, consumption tracking, and analytics — serving over 50 million users across iOS, Android, Mac, Chrome, and web. These are systems where correctness compounds. Subscription state has to stay consistent across five clients and two app-store billing systems that each go quiet at the worst moment. Consumption metering has to be exact enough to bill on and cheap enough to run at our request volume. The public TTS API has external customers with their own products depending on our latency and uptime. None of this degrades gracefully — it is either right, or someone gets charged twice. The job is to make your own job smaller. Every system you own here should need less of you a year from now than it did the day you took it, and the reward for that is a larger one. That is the entire growth path on this team — there is no separate ladder, and no ceiling except the one you stop raising. We are a flat organization: people become leaders here by taking scope and being right about it, fast. What You’ll Do Design, build, and own the APIs behind payments, subscriptions, auth, consumption tracking, and our public TTS API Take on services you didn't write and make them faster, cheaper, and harder to break Establish that a change is correct before it ships, and leave behind the checks that keep it correct after you've moved on Automate the parts of your role that shouldn't need a person, then go take on what that freed you up for Turn work you've done once into work the whole team can repeat Design B2B and enterprise integrations for customers building on top of us Work with product, mobile, and web to keep backend architecture ahead of where the product is going An Ideal Candidate Should Have Proven backend experience in TS/Node (required) Direct experience with GCP; working knowledge of AWS, Azure, or another cloud A habit of giving away work you used to own, and something to show for the room it created A daily working setup with AI agents you can describe in detail — what runs unattended, what you review, and where you've decided it doesn't get to act alone The instinct to check a result against the system itself — logs, database state, the actual request — rather than against a summary of it Judgment about what not to build, and the ability to say plainly why you dropped it A preference for being corrected over being right Preferred: Docker and containerized deployments Preferred: deploying high-availability applications on Kubernetes Interview process Several technical interviews plus a take-home assessment on a real codebase. We aim to finish within a week. The assessment runs in two stages: you'll submit, get real feedback from an engineer on this team, and have time to act on it. Use the tools you use every day. You'll be asked to walk through your reasoning, so bring it. 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.

TypeScript
Node.js
API design
System architecture
Backend development
Direct Apply
Posted about 1 month ago
Speechify

Software Engineer, Platform - San Mateo, CA, USA

Speechify•Anywhere•Full-time
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Compensation$85K - 130K a year

Design, build, and maintain backend APIs for payments, authentication, and consumption tracking while optimizing services and collaborating with teams. | Proven backend experience in TypeScript and Node.js, experience with GCP, strong system design judgment, automation skills, and ability to work in distributed environments. | 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. Overview The Platform team owns the backend behind everything Speechify ships: the public TTS API, payments, subscriptions, auth, consumption tracking, and analytics — serving over 50 million users across iOS, Android, Mac, Chrome, and web. These are systems where correctness compounds. Subscription state has to stay consistent across five clients and two app-store billing systems that each go quiet at the worst moment. Consumption metering has to be exact enough to bill on and cheap enough to run at our request volume. The public TTS API has external customers with their own products depending on our latency and uptime. None of this degrades gracefully — it is either right, or someone gets charged twice. The job is to make your own job smaller. Every system you own here should need less of you a year from now than it did the day you took it, and the reward for that is a larger one. That is the entire growth path on this team — there is no separate ladder, and no ceiling except the one you stop raising. We are a flat organization: people become leaders here by taking scope and being right about it, fast. What You’ll Do Design, build, and own the APIs behind payments, subscriptions, auth, consumption tracking, and our public TTS API Take on services you didn't write and make them faster, cheaper, and harder to break Establish that a change is correct before it ships, and leave behind the checks that keep it correct after you've moved on Automate the parts of your role that shouldn't need a person, then go take on what that freed you up for Turn work you've done once into work the whole team can repeat Design B2B and enterprise integrations for customers building on top of us Work with product, mobile, and web to keep backend architecture ahead of where the product is going An Ideal Candidate Should Have Proven backend experience in TS/Node (required) Direct experience with GCP; working knowledge of AWS, Azure, or another cloud A habit of giving away work you used to own, and something to show for the room it created A daily working setup with AI agents you can describe in detail — what runs unattended, what you review, and where you've decided it doesn't get to act alone The instinct to check a result against the system itself — logs, database state, the actual request — rather than against a summary of it Judgment about what not to build, and the ability to say plainly why you dropped it A preference for being corrected over being right Preferred: Docker and containerized deployments Preferred: deploying high-availability applications on Kubernetes Interview process Several technical interviews plus a take-home assessment on a real codebase. We aim to finish within a week. The assessment runs in two stages: you'll submit, get real feedback from an engineer on this team, and have time to act on it. Use the tools you use every day. You'll be asked to walk through your reasoning, so bring it. 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.

TypeScript
Node.js
API Design
System Architecture
Backend Development
Direct Apply
Posted about 1 month ago
SP

Software Engineer, Platform - Honolulu, HI, USA

Speechify•Anywhere•Full-time
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Compensation$70K - 120K a year

Design, build, and maintain backend APIs and collaborate with teams to improve system performance and automate tasks. | Proven backend experience with TypeScript and Node.js, experience with GCP, strong system architecture judgment, and preference for scalable automation. | 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. Overview The Platform team owns the backend behind everything Speechify ships: the public TTS API, payments, subscriptions, auth, consumption tracking, and analytics — serving over 50 million users across iOS, Android, Mac, Chrome, and web. These are systems where correctness compounds. Subscription state has to stay consistent across five clients and two app-store billing systems that each go quiet at the worst moment. Consumption metering has to be exact enough to bill on and cheap enough to run at our request volume. The public TTS API has external customers with their own products depending on our latency and uptime. None of this degrades gracefully — it is either right, or someone gets charged twice. The job is to make your own job smaller. Every system you own here should need less of you a year from now than it did the day you took it, and the reward for that is a larger one. That is the entire growth path on this team — there is no separate ladder, and no ceiling except the one you stop raising. We are a flat organization: people become leaders here by taking scope and being right about it, fast. What You’ll Do Design, build, and own the APIs behind payments, subscriptions, auth, consumption tracking, and our public TTS API Take on services you didn't write and make them faster, cheaper, and harder to break Establish that a change is correct before it ships, and leave behind the checks that keep it correct after you've moved on Automate the parts of your role that shouldn't need a person, then go take on what that freed you up for Turn work you've done once into work the whole team can repeat Design B2B and enterprise integrations for customers building on top of us Work with product, mobile, and web to keep backend architecture ahead of where the product is going An Ideal Candidate Should Have Proven backend experience in TS/Node (required) Direct experience with GCP; working knowledge of AWS, Azure, or another cloud A habit of giving away work you used to own, and something to show for the room it created A daily working setup with AI agents you can describe in detail — what runs unattended, what you review, and where you've decided it doesn't get to act alone The instinct to check a result against the system itself — logs, database state, the actual request — rather than against a summary of it Judgment about what not to build, and the ability to say plainly why you dropped it A preference for being corrected over being right Preferred: Docker and containerized deployments Preferred: deploying high-availability applications on Kubernetes Interview process Several technical interviews plus a take-home assessment on a real codebase. We aim to finish within a week. The assessment runs in two stages: you'll submit, get real feedback from an engineer on this team, and have time to act on it. Use the tools you use every day. You'll be asked to walk through your reasoning, so bring it. 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.

TypeScript
API Design
System Architecture
Direct Apply
Posted about 1 month ago
Speechify

Software Engineer, Platform - Evanston, IL, USA

Speechify•Anywhere•Full-time
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Compensation$80K - 130K a year

Design, build, and own backend APIs for payments, subscriptions, authentication, and public TTS services, optimizing for performance and scalability. | Proven backend experience in TypeScript and Node.js, direct GCP experience, strong system architecture judgment, and automation of workflows to reduce technical debt. | 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. Overview The Platform team owns the backend behind everything Speechify ships: the public TTS API, payments, subscriptions, auth, consumption tracking, and analytics — serving over 50 million users across iOS, Android, Mac, Chrome, and web. These are systems where correctness compounds. Subscription state has to stay consistent across five clients and two app-store billing systems that each go quiet at the worst moment. Consumption metering has to be exact enough to bill on and cheap enough to run at our request volume. The public TTS API has external customers with their own products depending on our latency and uptime. None of this degrades gracefully — it is either right, or someone gets charged twice. The job is to make your own job smaller. Every system you own here should need less of you a year from now than it did the day you took it, and the reward for that is a larger one. That is the entire growth path on this team — there is no separate ladder, and no ceiling except the one you stop raising. We are a flat organization: people become leaders here by taking scope and being right about it, fast. What You’ll Do Design, build, and own the APIs behind payments, subscriptions, auth, consumption tracking, and our public TTS API Take on services you didn't write and make them faster, cheaper, and harder to break Establish that a change is correct before it ships, and leave behind the checks that keep it correct after you've moved on Automate the parts of your role that shouldn't need a person, then go take on what that freed you up for Turn work you've done once into work the whole team can repeat Design B2B and enterprise integrations for customers building on top of us Work with product, mobile, and web to keep backend architecture ahead of where the product is going An Ideal Candidate Should Have Proven backend experience in TS/Node (required) Direct experience with GCP; working knowledge of AWS, Azure, or another cloud A habit of giving away work you used to own, and something to show for the room it created A daily working setup with AI agents you can describe in detail — what runs unattended, what you review, and where you've decided it doesn't get to act alone The instinct to check a result against the system itself — logs, database state, the actual request — rather than against a summary of it Judgment about what not to build, and the ability to say plainly why you dropped it A preference for being corrected over being right Preferred: Docker and containerized deployments Preferred: deploying high-availability applications on Kubernetes Interview process Several technical interviews plus a take-home assessment on a real codebase. We aim to finish within a week. The assessment runs in two stages: you'll submit, get real feedback from an engineer on this team, and have time to act on it. Use the tools you use every day. You'll be asked to walk through your reasoning, so bring it. 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.

TypeScript
API Design
System Architecture
Backend Development
Authentication
Direct Apply
Posted about 1 month ago
SP

Software Engineer, Platform - Colorado Springs, CO, USA

Speechify•Anywhere•Full-time
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Compensation$70K - 120K a year

Design and maintain scalable backend APIs and collaborate with teams to improve system efficiency. | Proven backend experience in TypeScript and Node.js, cloud platform experience, strong system design judgment, and automation skills. | 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. Overview The Platform team owns the backend behind everything Speechify ships: the public TTS API, payments, subscriptions, auth, consumption tracking, and analytics — serving over 50 million users across iOS, Android, Mac, Chrome, and web. These are systems where correctness compounds. Subscription state has to stay consistent across five clients and two app-store billing systems that each go quiet at the worst moment. Consumption metering has to be exact enough to bill on and cheap enough to run at our request volume. The public TTS API has external customers with their own products depending on our latency and uptime. None of this degrades gracefully — it is either right, or someone gets charged twice. The job is to make your own job smaller. Every system you own here should need less of you a year from now than it did the day you took it, and the reward for that is a larger one. That is the entire growth path on this team — there is no separate ladder, and no ceiling except the one you stop raising. We are a flat organization: people become leaders here by taking scope and being right about it, fast. What You’ll Do Design, build, and own the APIs behind payments, subscriptions, auth, consumption tracking, and our public TTS API Take on services you didn't write and make them faster, cheaper, and harder to break Establish that a change is correct before it ships, and leave behind the checks that keep it correct after you've moved on Automate the parts of your role that shouldn't need a person, then go take on what that freed you up for Turn work you've done once into work the whole team can repeat Design B2B and enterprise integrations for customers building on top of us Work with product, mobile, and web to keep backend architecture ahead of where the product is going An Ideal Candidate Should Have Proven backend experience in TS/Node (required) Direct experience with GCP; working knowledge of AWS, Azure, or another cloud A habit of giving away work you used to own, and something to show for the room it created A daily working setup with AI agents you can describe in detail — what runs unattended, what you review, and where you've decided it doesn't get to act alone The instinct to check a result against the system itself — logs, database state, the actual request — rather than against a summary of it Judgment about what not to build, and the ability to say plainly why you dropped it A preference for being corrected over being right Preferred: Docker and containerized deployments Preferred: deploying high-availability applications on Kubernetes Interview process Several technical interviews plus a take-home assessment on a real codebase. We aim to finish within a week. The assessment runs in two stages: you'll submit, get real feedback from an engineer on this team, and have time to act on it. Use the tools you use every day. You'll be asked to walk through your reasoning, so bring it. 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.

TypeScript
API Design
Backend Development
Direct Apply
Posted about 1 month ago
SP

Software Engineer, Platform - Tacoma, WA, USA

Speechify•Anywhere•Full-time
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Compensation$85K - 130K a year

Design and maintain backend APIs for payments, authentication, and TTS services while automating processes and collaborating with teams. | Proven backend experience in TypeScript and Node.js with direct GCP experience and strong system design judgment. | 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. Overview The Platform team owns the backend behind everything Speechify ships: the public TTS API, payments, subscriptions, auth, consumption tracking, and analytics — serving over 50 million users across iOS, Android, Mac, Chrome, and web. These are systems where correctness compounds. Subscription state has to stay consistent across five clients and two app-store billing systems that each go quiet at the worst moment. Consumption metering has to be exact enough to bill on and cheap enough to run at our request volume. The public TTS API has external customers with their own products depending on our latency and uptime. None of this degrades gracefully — it is either right, or someone gets charged twice. The job is to make your own job smaller. Every system you own here should need less of you a year from now than it did the day you took it, and the reward for that is a larger one. That is the entire growth path on this team — there is no separate ladder, and no ceiling except the one you stop raising. We are a flat organization: people become leaders here by taking scope and being right about it, fast. What You’ll Do Design, build, and own the APIs behind payments, subscriptions, auth, consumption tracking, and our public TTS API Take on services you didn't write and make them faster, cheaper, and harder to break Establish that a change is correct before it ships, and leave behind the checks that keep it correct after you've moved on Automate the parts of your role that shouldn't need a person, then go take on what that freed you up for Turn work you've done once into work the whole team can repeat Design B2B and enterprise integrations for customers building on top of us Work with product, mobile, and web to keep backend architecture ahead of where the product is going An Ideal Candidate Should Have Proven backend experience in TS/Node (required) Direct experience with GCP; working knowledge of AWS, Azure, or another cloud A habit of giving away work you used to own, and something to show for the room it created A daily working setup with AI agents you can describe in detail — what runs unattended, what you review, and where you've decided it doesn't get to act alone The instinct to check a result against the system itself — logs, database state, the actual request — rather than against a summary of it Judgment about what not to build, and the ability to say plainly why you dropped it A preference for being corrected over being right Preferred: Docker and containerized deployments Preferred: deploying high-availability applications on Kubernetes Interview process Several technical interviews plus a take-home assessment on a real codebase. We aim to finish within a week. The assessment runs in two stages: you'll submit, get real feedback from an engineer on this team, and have time to act on it. Use the tools you use every day. You'll be asked to walk through your reasoning, so bring it. 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.

TypeScript
Node.js
API Design
System Architecture
Backend Development
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Posted about 1 month ago
SP

Software Engineer, Platform - San Antonio, TX, USA

Speechify•Anywhere•Full-time
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Compensation$55K - 120K a year

Design, build, and maintain backend APIs for payments, authentication, and consumption tracking while optimizing services and collaborating with teams. | Proven backend experience in TypeScript and Node.js, experience with GCP, strong system design judgment, automation skills, and ability to work in distributed environments. | 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. Overview The Platform team owns the backend behind everything Speechify ships: the public TTS API, payments, subscriptions, auth, consumption tracking, and analytics — serving over 50 million users across iOS, Android, Mac, Chrome, and web. These are systems where correctness compounds. Subscription state has to stay consistent across five clients and two app-store billing systems that each go quiet at the worst moment. Consumption metering has to be exact enough to bill on and cheap enough to run at our request volume. The public TTS API has external customers with their own products depending on our latency and uptime. None of this degrades gracefully — it is either right, or someone gets charged twice. The job is to make your own job smaller. Every system you own here should need less of you a year from now than it did the day you took it, and the reward for that is a larger one. That is the entire growth path on this team — there is no separate ladder, and no ceiling except the one you stop raising. We are a flat organization: people become leaders here by taking scope and being right about it, fast. What You’ll Do Design, build, and own the APIs behind payments, subscriptions, auth, consumption tracking, and our public TTS API Take on services you didn't write and make them faster, cheaper, and harder to break Establish that a change is correct before it ships, and leave behind the checks that keep it correct after you've moved on Automate the parts of your role that shouldn't need a person, then go take on what that freed you up for Turn work you've done once into work the whole team can repeat Design B2B and enterprise integrations for customers building on top of us Work with product, mobile, and web to keep backend architecture ahead of where the product is going An Ideal Candidate Should Have Proven backend experience in TS/Node (required) Direct experience with GCP; working knowledge of AWS, Azure, or another cloud A habit of giving away work you used to own, and something to show for the room it created A daily working setup with AI agents you can describe in detail — what runs unattended, what you review, and where you've decided it doesn't get to act alone The instinct to check a result against the system itself — logs, database state, the actual request — rather than against a summary of it Judgment about what not to build, and the ability to say plainly why you dropped it A preference for being corrected over being right Preferred: Docker and containerized deployments Preferred: deploying high-availability applications on Kubernetes Interview process Several technical interviews plus a take-home assessment on a real codebase. We aim to finish within a week. The assessment runs in two stages: you'll submit, get real feedback from an engineer on this team, and have time to act on it. Use the tools you use every day. You'll be asked to walk through your reasoning, so bring it. 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.

TypeScript
Node.js
API Design
Backend Development
System Architecture
Direct Apply
Posted about 1 month ago
Speechify

Software Engineer, Platform - Buffalo, NY, USA

Speechify•Anywhere•Full-time
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Compensation$70K - 120K a year

Design, build, and own backend APIs for payments, subscriptions, authentication, and optimize services for performance and scalability. | Proven backend experience in TypeScript and Node.js, experience with GCP, strong system architecture judgment, and ability to work in distributed asynchronous environments. | 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. Overview The Platform team owns the backend behind everything Speechify ships: the public TTS API, payments, subscriptions, auth, consumption tracking, and analytics — serving over 50 million users across iOS, Android, Mac, Chrome, and web. These are systems where correctness compounds. Subscription state has to stay consistent across five clients and two app-store billing systems that each go quiet at the worst moment. Consumption metering has to be exact enough to bill on and cheap enough to run at our request volume. The public TTS API has external customers with their own products depending on our latency and uptime. None of this degrades gracefully — it is either right, or someone gets charged twice. The job is to make your own job smaller. Every system you own here should need less of you a year from now than it did the day you took it, and the reward for that is a larger one. That is the entire growth path on this team — there is no separate ladder, and no ceiling except the one you stop raising. We are a flat organization: people become leaders here by taking scope and being right about it, fast. What You’ll Do Design, build, and own the APIs behind payments, subscriptions, auth, consumption tracking, and our public TTS API Take on services you didn't write and make them faster, cheaper, and harder to break Establish that a change is correct before it ships, and leave behind the checks that keep it correct after you've moved on Automate the parts of your role that shouldn't need a person, then go take on what that freed you up for Turn work you've done once into work the whole team can repeat Design B2B and enterprise integrations for customers building on top of us Work with product, mobile, and web to keep backend architecture ahead of where the product is going An Ideal Candidate Should Have Proven backend experience in TS/Node (required) Direct experience with GCP; working knowledge of AWS, Azure, or another cloud A habit of giving away work you used to own, and something to show for the room it created A daily working setup with AI agents you can describe in detail — what runs unattended, what you review, and where you've decided it doesn't get to act alone The instinct to check a result against the system itself — logs, database state, the actual request — rather than against a summary of it Judgment about what not to build, and the ability to say plainly why you dropped it A preference for being corrected over being right Preferred: Docker and containerized deployments Preferred: deploying high-availability applications on Kubernetes Interview process Several technical interviews plus a take-home assessment on a real codebase. We aim to finish within a week. The assessment runs in two stages: you'll submit, get real feedback from an engineer on this team, and have time to act on it. Use the tools you use every day. You'll be asked to walk through your reasoning, so bring it. 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.

TypeScript
Node.js
API design
System architecture
Backend development
Direct Apply
Posted about 1 month ago
Speechify

Software Engineer, Platform - Kansas City, MO, USA

Speechify•Anywhere•Full-time
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Compensation$55K - 120K a year

Design, build, and maintain backend APIs for payments, authentication, and public services while optimizing performance and automating operations. | Proven backend experience with TypeScript and Node.js, experience with GCP, strong system architecture judgment, and automation skills. | 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. Overview The Platform team owns the backend behind everything Speechify ships: the public TTS API, payments, subscriptions, auth, consumption tracking, and analytics — serving over 50 million users across iOS, Android, Mac, Chrome, and web. These are systems where correctness compounds. Subscription state has to stay consistent across five clients and two app-store billing systems that each go quiet at the worst moment. Consumption metering has to be exact enough to bill on and cheap enough to run at our request volume. The public TTS API has external customers with their own products depending on our latency and uptime. None of this degrades gracefully — it is either right, or someone gets charged twice. The job is to make your own job smaller. Every system you own here should need less of you a year from now than it did the day you took it, and the reward for that is a larger one. That is the entire growth path on this team — there is no separate ladder, and no ceiling except the one you stop raising. We are a flat organization: people become leaders here by taking scope and being right about it, fast. What You’ll Do Design, build, and own the APIs behind payments, subscriptions, auth, consumption tracking, and our public TTS API Take on services you didn't write and make them faster, cheaper, and harder to break Establish that a change is correct before it ships, and leave behind the checks that keep it correct after you've moved on Automate the parts of your role that shouldn't need a person, then go take on what that freed you up for Turn work you've done once into work the whole team can repeat Design B2B and enterprise integrations for customers building on top of us Work with product, mobile, and web to keep backend architecture ahead of where the product is going An Ideal Candidate Should Have Proven backend experience in TS/Node (required) Direct experience with GCP; working knowledge of AWS, Azure, or another cloud A habit of giving away work you used to own, and something to show for the room it created A daily working setup with AI agents you can describe in detail — what runs unattended, what you review, and where you've decided it doesn't get to act alone The instinct to check a result against the system itself — logs, database state, the actual request — rather than against a summary of it Judgment about what not to build, and the ability to say plainly why you dropped it A preference for being corrected over being right Preferred: Docker and containerized deployments Preferred: deploying high-availability applications on Kubernetes Interview process Several technical interviews plus a take-home assessment on a real codebase. We aim to finish within a week. The assessment runs in two stages: you'll submit, get real feedback from an engineer on this team, and have time to act on it. Use the tools you use every day. You'll be asked to walk through your reasoning, so bring it. 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.

TypeScript
Node.js
API design
System architecture
Backend development
Direct Apply
Posted about 1 month ago
SP

Software Engineer, Platform - Hartford, CT, USA

Speechify•Anywhere•Full-time
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Compensation$80K - 130K a year

Design and maintain backend APIs for payments and authentication while collaborating to optimize system performance. | Proven backend experience in TypeScript and Node.js with GCP knowledge and strong system architecture judgment. | 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. Overview The Platform team owns the backend behind everything Speechify ships: the public TTS API, payments, subscriptions, auth, consumption tracking, and analytics — serving over 50 million users across iOS, Android, Mac, Chrome, and web. These are systems where correctness compounds. Subscription state has to stay consistent across five clients and two app-store billing systems that each go quiet at the worst moment. Consumption metering has to be exact enough to bill on and cheap enough to run at our request volume. The public TTS API has external customers with their own products depending on our latency and uptime. None of this degrades gracefully — it is either right, or someone gets charged twice. The job is to make your own job smaller. Every system you own here should need less of you a year from now than it did the day you took it, and the reward for that is a larger one. That is the entire growth path on this team — there is no separate ladder, and no ceiling except the one you stop raising. We are a flat organization: people become leaders here by taking scope and being right about it, fast. What You’ll Do Design, build, and own the APIs behind payments, subscriptions, auth, consumption tracking, and our public TTS API Take on services you didn't write and make them faster, cheaper, and harder to break Establish that a change is correct before it ships, and leave behind the checks that keep it correct after you've moved on Automate the parts of your role that shouldn't need a person, then go take on what that freed you up for Turn work you've done once into work the whole team can repeat Design B2B and enterprise integrations for customers building on top of us Work with product, mobile, and web to keep backend architecture ahead of where the product is going An Ideal Candidate Should Have Proven backend experience in TS/Node (required) Direct experience with GCP; working knowledge of AWS, Azure, or another cloud A habit of giving away work you used to own, and something to show for the room it created A daily working setup with AI agents you can describe in detail — what runs unattended, what you review, and where you've decided it doesn't get to act alone The instinct to check a result against the system itself — logs, database state, the actual request — rather than against a summary of it Judgment about what not to build, and the ability to say plainly why you dropped it A preference for being corrected over being right Preferred: Docker and containerized deployments Preferred: deploying high-availability applications on Kubernetes Interview process Several technical interviews plus a take-home assessment on a real codebase. We aim to finish within a week. The assessment runs in two stages: you'll submit, get real feedback from an engineer on this team, and have time to act on it. Use the tools you use every day. You'll be asked to walk through your reasoning, so bring it. 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.

TypeScript
Node.js
API Design
System Architecture
Backend Development
Direct Apply
Posted about 1 month ago
SP

Software Engineer, Platform - Cincinnati, OH, USA

Speechify•Anywhere•Full-time
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Compensation$85K - 120K a year

Design, build, and maintain backend APIs and optimize services for performance and scalability. | Proven backend experience in TypeScript and Node.js with GCP experience and strong system architecture judgment. | 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. Overview The Platform team owns the backend behind everything Speechify ships: the public TTS API, payments, subscriptions, auth, consumption tracking, and analytics — serving over 50 million users across iOS, Android, Mac, Chrome, and web. These are systems where correctness compounds. Subscription state has to stay consistent across five clients and two app-store billing systems that each go quiet at the worst moment. Consumption metering has to be exact enough to bill on and cheap enough to run at our request volume. The public TTS API has external customers with their own products depending on our latency and uptime. None of this degrades gracefully — it is either right, or someone gets charged twice. The job is to make your own job smaller. Every system you own here should need less of you a year from now than it did the day you took it, and the reward for that is a larger one. That is the entire growth path on this team — there is no separate ladder, and no ceiling except the one you stop raising. We are a flat organization: people become leaders here by taking scope and being right about it, fast. What You’ll Do Design, build, and own the APIs behind payments, subscriptions, auth, consumption tracking, and our public TTS API Take on services you didn't write and make them faster, cheaper, and harder to break Establish that a change is correct before it ships, and leave behind the checks that keep it correct after you've moved on Automate the parts of your role that shouldn't need a person, then go take on what that freed you up for Turn work you've done once into work the whole team can repeat Design B2B and enterprise integrations for customers building on top of us Work with product, mobile, and web to keep backend architecture ahead of where the product is going An Ideal Candidate Should Have Proven backend experience in TS/Node (required) Direct experience with GCP; working knowledge of AWS, Azure, or another cloud A habit of giving away work you used to own, and something to show for the room it created A daily working setup with AI agents you can describe in detail — what runs unattended, what you review, and where you've decided it doesn't get to act alone The instinct to check a result against the system itself — logs, database state, the actual request — rather than against a summary of it Judgment about what not to build, and the ability to say plainly why you dropped it A preference for being corrected over being right Preferred: Docker and containerized deployments Preferred: deploying high-availability applications on Kubernetes Interview process Several technical interviews plus a take-home assessment on a real codebase. We aim to finish within a week. The assessment runs in two stages: you'll submit, get real feedback from an engineer on this team, and have time to act on it. Use the tools you use every day. You'll be asked to walk through your reasoning, so bring it. 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.

TypeScript
Node.js
API Design
System Architecture
Backend Development
Direct Apply
Posted about 1 month ago
SP

Software Engineer, Platform - Des Moines, IA, USA

Speechify•Anywhere•Full-time
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Compensation$70K - 120K a year

Design, build, and maintain backend APIs for payments, authentication, and text-to-speech services ensuring scalability and reliability. | Proven backend experience in TypeScript and Node.js, experience with Google Cloud Platform, strong system design judgment, automation skills, and ability to work in distributed teams. | 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. Overview The Platform team owns the backend behind everything Speechify ships: the public TTS API, payments, subscriptions, auth, consumption tracking, and analytics — serving over 50 million users across iOS, Android, Mac, Chrome, and web. These are systems where correctness compounds. Subscription state has to stay consistent across five clients and two app-store billing systems that each go quiet at the worst moment. Consumption metering has to be exact enough to bill on and cheap enough to run at our request volume. The public TTS API has external customers with their own products depending on our latency and uptime. None of this degrades gracefully — it is either right, or someone gets charged twice. The job is to make your own job smaller. Every system you own here should need less of you a year from now than it did the day you took it, and the reward for that is a larger one. That is the entire growth path on this team — there is no separate ladder, and no ceiling except the one you stop raising. We are a flat organization: people become leaders here by taking scope and being right about it, fast. What You’ll Do Design, build, and own the APIs behind payments, subscriptions, auth, consumption tracking, and our public TTS API Take on services you didn't write and make them faster, cheaper, and harder to break Establish that a change is correct before it ships, and leave behind the checks that keep it correct after you've moved on Automate the parts of your role that shouldn't need a person, then go take on what that freed you up for Turn work you've done once into work the whole team can repeat Design B2B and enterprise integrations for customers building on top of us Work with product, mobile, and web to keep backend architecture ahead of where the product is going An Ideal Candidate Should Have Proven backend experience in TS/Node (required) Direct experience with GCP; working knowledge of AWS, Azure, or another cloud A habit of giving away work you used to own, and something to show for the room it created A daily working setup with AI agents you can describe in detail — what runs unattended, what you review, and where you've decided it doesn't get to act alone The instinct to check a result against the system itself — logs, database state, the actual request — rather than against a summary of it Judgment about what not to build, and the ability to say plainly why you dropped it A preference for being corrected over being right Preferred: Docker and containerized deployments Preferred: deploying high-availability applications on Kubernetes Interview process Several technical interviews plus a take-home assessment on a real codebase. We aim to finish within a week. The assessment runs in two stages: you'll submit, get real feedback from an engineer on this team, and have time to act on it. Use the tools you use every day. You'll be asked to walk through your reasoning, so bring it. 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.

TypeScript
Node.js
API design
Backend development
System architecture
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Posted about 1 month ago
SP

Software Engineer, Platform - Cambridge, MA, USA

Speechify•Anywhere•Full-time
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Compensation$70K - 130K a year

Design, build, and own backend services including APIs for payments, authentication, and consumption tracking, and optimize services for performance and scalability. | Proven backend experience in TypeScript and Node.js with GCP experience, strong system architecture judgment, and ability to maintain high-availability applications. | 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. Overview The Platform team owns the backend behind everything Speechify ships: the public TTS API, payments, subscriptions, auth, consumption tracking, and analytics — serving over 50 million users across iOS, Android, Mac, Chrome, and web. These are systems where correctness compounds. Subscription state has to stay consistent across five clients and two app-store billing systems that each go quiet at the worst moment. Consumption metering has to be exact enough to bill on and cheap enough to run at our request volume. The public TTS API has external customers with their own products depending on our latency and uptime. None of this degrades gracefully — it is either right, or someone gets charged twice. The job is to make your own job smaller. Every system you own here should need less of you a year from now than it did the day you took it, and the reward for that is a larger one. That is the entire growth path on this team — there is no separate ladder, and no ceiling except the one you stop raising. We are a flat organization: people become leaders here by taking scope and being right about it, fast. What You’ll Do Design, build, and own the APIs behind payments, subscriptions, auth, consumption tracking, and our public TTS API Take on services you didn't write and make them faster, cheaper, and harder to break Establish that a change is correct before it ships, and leave behind the checks that keep it correct after you've moved on Automate the parts of your role that shouldn't need a person, then go take on what that freed you up for Turn work you've done once into work the whole team can repeat Design B2B and enterprise integrations for customers building on top of us Work with product, mobile, and web to keep backend architecture ahead of where the product is going An Ideal Candidate Should Have Proven backend experience in TS/Node (required) Direct experience with GCP; working knowledge of AWS, Azure, or another cloud A habit of giving away work you used to own, and something to show for the room it created A daily working setup with AI agents you can describe in detail — what runs unattended, what you review, and where you've decided it doesn't get to act alone The instinct to check a result against the system itself — logs, database state, the actual request — rather than against a summary of it Judgment about what not to build, and the ability to say plainly why you dropped it A preference for being corrected over being right Preferred: Docker and containerized deployments Preferred: deploying high-availability applications on Kubernetes Interview process Several technical interviews plus a take-home assessment on a real codebase. We aim to finish within a week. The assessment runs in two stages: you'll submit, get real feedback from an engineer on this team, and have time to act on it. Use the tools you use every day. You'll be asked to walk through your reasoning, so bring it. 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.

TypeScript
Node.js
API Design
System Architecture
Backend Development
Direct Apply
Posted about 1 month ago
Speechify

Software Engineer, Platform - Princeton, NJ, USA

Speechify•Anywhere•Full-time
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Compensation$85K - 130K a year

Design, build, and maintain backend APIs for payments, authentication, and public services while collaborating with teams to ensure scalable backend architecture and automation. | Proven backend experience in TypeScript and Node.js with direct GCP experience and strong system design judgment for high-availability applications. | 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. Overview The Platform team owns the backend behind everything Speechify ships: the public TTS API, payments, subscriptions, auth, consumption tracking, and analytics — serving over 50 million users across iOS, Android, Mac, Chrome, and web. These are systems where correctness compounds. Subscription state has to stay consistent across five clients and two app-store billing systems that each go quiet at the worst moment. Consumption metering has to be exact enough to bill on and cheap enough to run at our request volume. The public TTS API has external customers with their own products depending on our latency and uptime. None of this degrades gracefully — it is either right, or someone gets charged twice. The job is to make your own job smaller. Every system you own here should need less of you a year from now than it did the day you took it, and the reward for that is a larger one. That is the entire growth path on this team — there is no separate ladder, and no ceiling except the one you stop raising. We are a flat organization: people become leaders here by taking scope and being right about it, fast. What You’ll Do Design, build, and own the APIs behind payments, subscriptions, auth, consumption tracking, and our public TTS API Take on services you didn't write and make them faster, cheaper, and harder to break Establish that a change is correct before it ships, and leave behind the checks that keep it correct after you've moved on Automate the parts of your role that shouldn't need a person, then go take on what that freed you up for Turn work you've done once into work the whole team can repeat Design B2B and enterprise integrations for customers building on top of us Work with product, mobile, and web to keep backend architecture ahead of where the product is going An Ideal Candidate Should Have Proven backend experience in TS/Node (required) Direct experience with GCP; working knowledge of AWS, Azure, or another cloud A habit of giving away work you used to own, and something to show for the room it created A daily working setup with AI agents you can describe in detail — what runs unattended, what you review, and where you've decided it doesn't get to act alone The instinct to check a result against the system itself — logs, database state, the actual request — rather than against a summary of it Judgment about what not to build, and the ability to say plainly why you dropped it A preference for being corrected over being right Preferred: Docker and containerized deployments Preferred: deploying high-availability applications on Kubernetes Interview process Several technical interviews plus a take-home assessment on a real codebase. We aim to finish within a week. The assessment runs in two stages: you'll submit, get real feedback from an engineer on this team, and have time to act on it. Use the tools you use every day. You'll be asked to walk through your reasoning, so bring it. 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.

TypeScript
Node.js
API Design
System Architecture
Backend Development
Direct Apply
Posted about 1 month ago
SP

Software Engineer, Platform - Raleigh, NC, USA

Speechify•Anywhere•Full-time
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Compensation$70K - 130K a year

Design, build, and own backend APIs for payments, authentication, and consumption tracking ensuring scalability and reliability. | Proven backend experience in TypeScript and Node.js with direct GCP experience and strong system architecture judgment. | 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. Overview The Platform team owns the backend behind everything Speechify ships: the public TTS API, payments, subscriptions, auth, consumption tracking, and analytics — serving over 50 million users across iOS, Android, Mac, Chrome, and web. These are systems where correctness compounds. Subscription state has to stay consistent across five clients and two app-store billing systems that each go quiet at the worst moment. Consumption metering has to be exact enough to bill on and cheap enough to run at our request volume. The public TTS API has external customers with their own products depending on our latency and uptime. None of this degrades gracefully — it is either right, or someone gets charged twice. The job is to make your own job smaller. Every system you own here should need less of you a year from now than it did the day you took it, and the reward for that is a larger one. That is the entire growth path on this team — there is no separate ladder, and no ceiling except the one you stop raising. We are a flat organization: people become leaders here by taking scope and being right about it, fast. What You’ll Do Design, build, and own the APIs behind payments, subscriptions, auth, consumption tracking, and our public TTS API Take on services you didn't write and make them faster, cheaper, and harder to break Establish that a change is correct before it ships, and leave behind the checks that keep it correct after you've moved on Automate the parts of your role that shouldn't need a person, then go take on what that freed you up for Turn work you've done once into work the whole team can repeat Design B2B and enterprise integrations for customers building on top of us Work with product, mobile, and web to keep backend architecture ahead of where the product is going An Ideal Candidate Should Have Proven backend experience in TS/Node (required) Direct experience with GCP; working knowledge of AWS, Azure, or another cloud A habit of giving away work you used to own, and something to show for the room it created A daily working setup with AI agents you can describe in detail — what runs unattended, what you review, and where you've decided it doesn't get to act alone The instinct to check a result against the system itself — logs, database state, the actual request — rather than against a summary of it Judgment about what not to build, and the ability to say plainly why you dropped it A preference for being corrected over being right Preferred: Docker and containerized deployments Preferred: deploying high-availability applications on Kubernetes Interview process Several technical interviews plus a take-home assessment on a real codebase. We aim to finish within a week. The assessment runs in two stages: you'll submit, get real feedback from an engineer on this team, and have time to act on it. Use the tools you use every day. You'll be asked to walk through your reasoning, so bring it. 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.

TypeScript
API Design
System Architecture
Direct Apply
Posted about 1 month ago
Speechify

Software Engineer, Platform - Louisville, KY, USA

Speechify•Anywhere•Full-time
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Compensation$70K - 120K a year

Design, build, and own backend APIs for payments, authentication, and TTS services while ensuring system correctness and scalability. | Proven backend experience in TypeScript and Node.js, experience with GCP, strong system design judgment, automation skills, and ability to work in distributed environments. | 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. Overview The Platform team owns the backend behind everything Speechify ships: the public TTS API, payments, subscriptions, auth, consumption tracking, and analytics — serving over 50 million users across iOS, Android, Mac, Chrome, and web. These are systems where correctness compounds. Subscription state has to stay consistent across five clients and two app-store billing systems that each go quiet at the worst moment. Consumption metering has to be exact enough to bill on and cheap enough to run at our request volume. The public TTS API has external customers with their own products depending on our latency and uptime. None of this degrades gracefully — it is either right, or someone gets charged twice. The job is to make your own job smaller. Every system you own here should need less of you a year from now than it did the day you took it, and the reward for that is a larger one. That is the entire growth path on this team — there is no separate ladder, and no ceiling except the one you stop raising. We are a flat organization: people become leaders here by taking scope and being right about it, fast. What You’ll Do Design, build, and own the APIs behind payments, subscriptions, auth, consumption tracking, and our public TTS API Take on services you didn't write and make them faster, cheaper, and harder to break Establish that a change is correct before it ships, and leave behind the checks that keep it correct after you've moved on Automate the parts of your role that shouldn't need a person, then go take on what that freed you up for Turn work you've done once into work the whole team can repeat Design B2B and enterprise integrations for customers building on top of us Work with product, mobile, and web to keep backend architecture ahead of where the product is going An Ideal Candidate Should Have Proven backend experience in TS/Node (required) Direct experience with GCP; working knowledge of AWS, Azure, or another cloud A habit of giving away work you used to own, and something to show for the room it created A daily working setup with AI agents you can describe in detail — what runs unattended, what you review, and where you've decided it doesn't get to act alone The instinct to check a result against the system itself — logs, database state, the actual request — rather than against a summary of it Judgment about what not to build, and the ability to say plainly why you dropped it A preference for being corrected over being right Preferred: Docker and containerized deployments Preferred: deploying high-availability applications on Kubernetes Interview process Several technical interviews plus a take-home assessment on a real codebase. We aim to finish within a week. The assessment runs in two stages: you'll submit, get real feedback from an engineer on this team, and have time to act on it. Use the tools you use every day. You'll be asked to walk through your reasoning, so bring it. 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.

TypeScript
Node.js
API Design
Backend Development
System Architecture
Direct Apply
Posted about 1 month ago
Speechify

Software Engineer, Platform - Winston-Salem, NC, USA

Speechify•Anywhere•Full-time
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Compensation$70K - 120K a year

Design, build, and maintain backend APIs for payments, authentication, and consumption tracking while optimizing services and collaborating cross-functionally. | Proven backend experience in TypeScript and Node.js, experience with GCP, strong system design judgment, automation skills, and ability to work in distributed teams. | 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. Overview The Platform team owns the backend behind everything Speechify ships: the public TTS API, payments, subscriptions, auth, consumption tracking, and analytics — serving over 50 million users across iOS, Android, Mac, Chrome, and web. These are systems where correctness compounds. Subscription state has to stay consistent across five clients and two app-store billing systems that each go quiet at the worst moment. Consumption metering has to be exact enough to bill on and cheap enough to run at our request volume. The public TTS API has external customers with their own products depending on our latency and uptime. None of this degrades gracefully — it is either right, or someone gets charged twice. The job is to make your own job smaller. Every system you own here should need less of you a year from now than it did the day you took it, and the reward for that is a larger one. That is the entire growth path on this team — there is no separate ladder, and no ceiling except the one you stop raising. We are a flat organization: people become leaders here by taking scope and being right about it, fast. What You’ll Do Design, build, and own the APIs behind payments, subscriptions, auth, consumption tracking, and our public TTS API Take on services you didn't write and make them faster, cheaper, and harder to break Establish that a change is correct before it ships, and leave behind the checks that keep it correct after you've moved on Automate the parts of your role that shouldn't need a person, then go take on what that freed you up for Turn work you've done once into work the whole team can repeat Design B2B and enterprise integrations for customers building on top of us Work with product, mobile, and web to keep backend architecture ahead of where the product is going An Ideal Candidate Should Have Proven backend experience in TS/Node (required) Direct experience with GCP; working knowledge of AWS, Azure, or another cloud A habit of giving away work you used to own, and something to show for the room it created A daily working setup with AI agents you can describe in detail — what runs unattended, what you review, and where you've decided it doesn't get to act alone The instinct to check a result against the system itself — logs, database state, the actual request — rather than against a summary of it Judgment about what not to build, and the ability to say plainly why you dropped it A preference for being corrected over being right Preferred: Docker and containerized deployments Preferred: deploying high-availability applications on Kubernetes Interview process Several technical interviews plus a take-home assessment on a real codebase. We aim to finish within a week. The assessment runs in two stages: you'll submit, get real feedback from an engineer on this team, and have time to act on it. Use the tools you use every day. You'll be asked to walk through your reasoning, so bring it. 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.

TypeScript
API Design
System Architecture
Direct Apply
Posted about 1 month ago
Speechify

Software Engineer, Platform - Nashville, TN, USA

Speechify•Anywhere•Full-time
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Compensation$70K - 120K a year

Design, build, and maintain backend APIs ensuring scalability and reliability while collaborating with teams to evolve architecture and automate operations. | Proven backend experience in TypeScript and Node.js, experience with GCP, strong system design judgment, and proactive automation skills. | 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. Overview The Platform team owns the backend behind everything Speechify ships: the public TTS API, payments, subscriptions, auth, consumption tracking, and analytics — serving over 50 million users across iOS, Android, Mac, Chrome, and web. These are systems where correctness compounds. Subscription state has to stay consistent across five clients and two app-store billing systems that each go quiet at the worst moment. Consumption metering has to be exact enough to bill on and cheap enough to run at our request volume. The public TTS API has external customers with their own products depending on our latency and uptime. None of this degrades gracefully — it is either right, or someone gets charged twice. The job is to make your own job smaller. Every system you own here should need less of you a year from now than it did the day you took it, and the reward for that is a larger one. That is the entire growth path on this team — there is no separate ladder, and no ceiling except the one you stop raising. We are a flat organization: people become leaders here by taking scope and being right about it, fast. What You’ll Do Design, build, and own the APIs behind payments, subscriptions, auth, consumption tracking, and our public TTS API Take on services you didn't write and make them faster, cheaper, and harder to break Establish that a change is correct before it ships, and leave behind the checks that keep it correct after you've moved on Automate the parts of your role that shouldn't need a person, then go take on what that freed you up for Turn work you've done once into work the whole team can repeat Design B2B and enterprise integrations for customers building on top of us Work with product, mobile, and web to keep backend architecture ahead of where the product is going An Ideal Candidate Should Have Proven backend experience in TS/Node (required) Direct experience with GCP; working knowledge of AWS, Azure, or another cloud A habit of giving away work you used to own, and something to show for the room it created A daily working setup with AI agents you can describe in detail — what runs unattended, what you review, and where you've decided it doesn't get to act alone The instinct to check a result against the system itself — logs, database state, the actual request — rather than against a summary of it Judgment about what not to build, and the ability to say plainly why you dropped it A preference for being corrected over being right Preferred: Docker and containerized deployments Preferred: deploying high-availability applications on Kubernetes Interview process Several technical interviews plus a take-home assessment on a real codebase. We aim to finish within a week. The assessment runs in two stages: you'll submit, get real feedback from an engineer on this team, and have time to act on it. Use the tools you use every day. You'll be asked to walk through your reasoning, so bring it. 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.

TypeScript
API design
System architecture
Backend development
Node.js
Direct Apply
Posted about 1 month ago

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