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Speechify is a fast-growing AI-powered audio platform that converts written content (articles, documents, books) into high-quality audio, making information accessible and consumable on-the-go. The company is #1 in its category and experiencing exponential growth.
You'll join the Core Experiences team, which owns the foundational services, SDKs, and infrastructure that power Speechify's product across all platforms (web, mobile, desktop). This is a critical role at the intersection of product and infrastructure—you'll work closely with product teams to design and ship features that directly impact millions of users, many of whom have learning differences like dyslexia, ADD, low vision, and autism.
Key responsibilities:
- Collaborate with product teams to scope projects, identify scope-reduction opportunities for faster customer feedback, and navigate integration/UX tradeoffs across different platforms
- Optimize existing functionality to improve performance (faster loading, more intelligent parsing) through better abstractions and algorithm improvements
- Ship cloud functions, lightweight backend services, and jobs using Kotlin and Kotlin Multiplatform
- Think end-to-end about system design, prioritizing simplicity and reliability
You should have:
- Systems thinking: you understand that optimizing requires end-to-end design and value simplicity
- Speed: you generate ideas quickly, ship fast, and know how to prioritize what ships now vs. later
- Focus: you thrive in a high-growth, remote, async environment and know when to engage vs. focus heads-down
- Collaboration: you work well with opinionated designers, marketers, and PMs
- Technical depth in Kotlin Multiplatform (Java experience acceptable but role is Kotlin-focused)
- Bonus: prior GCP experience
The team is entrepreneurial, hands-off in management style, and committed to building great async culture. You'll have the opportunity to shape the company and product while working on technology that transforms how people consume information.
