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Senior Software Engineer, Core Experiences - Columbus, OH, USA

Speechify - Remote - Remote - posted 2025-08-26

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Salary: USD 140,000 - 200,000 / annual

Speechify is a fast-growing AI-powered audio platform that converts written content (articles, documents, books) into high-quality audio, making information accessible and learnable at scale. The company is #1 in its category and experiencing exponential growth. You'll join the Core Experiences team, which builds and maintains the foundational services, SDKs, and infrastructure that power Speechify's product across all platforms. This is a critical role at the intersection of product and infrastructure, requiring strategic thinking and a passion for designing clear, reliable APIs and simple systems that directly enhance user experience. Key responsibilities: - Collaborate with product teams to scope projects, reduce scope for faster customer feedback, and navigate integration/UX tradeoffs across different platforms - Optimize existing functionality to ship faster loading times and more intelligent parsing through efficient abstractions and algorithm improvements - Ship cloud functions, lightweight backend services, and jobs using Kotlin - Work end-to-end on system design, balancing speed of execution with long-term simplicity Ideal candidates demonstrate systems thinking, speed in generating and evaluating ideas, focus in a high-growth remote environment, and strong collaboration skills with designers, marketers, and product managers. Preferred tech stack includes Kotlin Multiplatform (Java experience acceptable), with GCP experience as a plus. The role offers a fast-growing environment where you can shape the company and product, an entrepreneurial team that supports risk and hustle, hands-off management, competitive compensation, and the opportunity to build products that directly impact millions of users, including those with learning differences like dyslexia, ADD, low vision, and autism.

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