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Senior Software Engineer, Core Experiences

Speechify
Speechify
7901 4th St N #6193
Florida
33702, St. Petersburg
United States 🇺🇸
Speechify
Speechify is a text-to-speech app that makes it easy for the world to access information. 20+ million people use our Google Chrome extension, web app, iOS app, and Android app. our mission is to make sure that reading is never a barrier to learning. Our amazing users are students, professionals, and productivity lovers. Many of them have learning differences like dyslexia and ADHD, while many just want to read faster and listen on the go. With Speechify you can turn any book, document, or website into audio, and listen while you’re in the car, doing laundry, walking your dog, making dinner, working out, skydiving—whatever your daily routine is! Speechify also powers Medium, the Star Tribune, The Direct, and more. Easily add text-to-speech to your website.
Job types: Full-time employment   Remote  

About this position

With that growth comes the need for a Senior Software Engineer to join our Platform Team. The Platform Team ships the engine of Speechify’s product ecosystem via a cross-platform SDK and backend services. This is a key role and ideal for someone who thinks strategically, enjoys a fast-paced environment, works backwards from the customer experience, and strives to deliver clear, powerful APIs and simple infrastructure.

Responsibilities

WHAT YOU'LL DO

• Collaborate with Speechify’s Product Teams to scope projects, find ways to reduce scope to get faster feedback from customers, navigate the integration/UX tradeoffs relevant to different product teams, and deliver solutions via our cross-platform SDK

• Optimize existing functionality to ship things like faster loading and more intelligent parsing by designing more efficient abstractions and improving our algorithms

• Ship cloud functions, lightweight backend services, and jobs using NodeJS/Typescript

Requirements

AN IDEAL CANDIDATE SHOULD HAVE
• Experience. You have negotiated tradeoffs to deliver APIs that other developers depend on, and you have been accountable for the reliability and performance of a production system.
• Systems thinking. You know that optimizing a system requires end-to-end design, and you believe simplicity is valuable.
• Speed. You work quickly to generate ideas and options and know how to decide which things can ship now and what things need time
• Focus. We’re a high-growth startup with a busy, remote team. You know how and when to engage or be heads down
• Collaboration. You know how to inspire, play, and negotiate with opinionated designers, marketers, and PMs
• Preferred Tech Stack:
• Kotlin Multiplatform (Java experience is OK but role is Kotlin Multiplatform)
• Prior experience with GCP is a plus

Skills

Google Cloud GCP : Google Cloud GCP
Programming languages : Java Kotlin

Benefits

1 - 1 USD per month