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Salary: USD 30,000 - 80,000 / annual
Speechify is a text-to-speech platform used by over 50 million people globally to convert PDFs, books, Google Docs, news articles, and websites into audio. The company was recently named Chrome Extension of the Year by Google and received Apple's 2025 Design Award for Inclusivity. With ~200 employees distributed worldwide and no physical office, Speechify operates as a fully remote, flat organization.
The Platform team is responsible for building and maintaining all backend services including payments, analytics, subscriptions, new products, text-to-speech infrastructure, and external APIs. This is a key engineering role ideal for someone who thinks strategically, thrives in fast-paced environments, and is passionate about product decisions and user experience.
In this role, you will design, develop, and maintain robust APIs including the public TTS API and internal APIs for payments, subscriptions, authentication, and consumption tracking. You'll oversee the full backend API landscape, optimizing for performance and maintainability. You'll collaborate on B2B solutions with a focus on customization and integration for enterprise clients, and work closely with cross-functional teams to align backend architecture with product strategy and user experience.
Required qualifications include proven backend development experience with TypeScript/Node.js, direct experience with Google Cloud Platform, and knowledge of AWS, Azure, or other cloud providers. Preferred skills include Docker and containerized deployments, as well as proficiency in deploying high-availability applications on Kubernetes. The ideal candidate demonstrates efficiency in ideation and implementation, prioritizing tasks based on urgency and impact.
Speechy values innovation, intuition, and drive. The role offers autonomy, the opportunity to shape company direction through contributions, and the chance to work on a product that meaningfully impacts people with learning differences like dyslexia and ADD. You'll work at the intersection of artificial intelligence and audio in a rapidly evolving tech domain.
