Speechify
AI and audio
SeniorSoftwareEngineer,CoreExperiences
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“Senior Software Engineer, Core Experiences at Speechify. Skills: API design, system design, backend services, SDKs. Build and maintain foundational services and SDKs. Optimize existing functionality”
What You'll Achieve.
reduce scope to get faster feedback from customers; deliver solutions via our cross-platform SDK; ship things like faster loading and more intelligent parsing; designing more efficient abstractions; improving our algorithms
Industry & Context.
Systems thinking; optimizing a system requires end-to-end design; simplicity is valuable
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
Systems thinking, Speed, Focus, Collaboration, Kotlin Multiplatform, Kotlin
Nice to Have
Prior experience with GCP is a plus, Java experience is OK but role is Kotlin Multiplatform
What You'll Do.
Build and maintain foundational services and SDKs
Optimize existing functionality
lightweight backend services
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Collaborate with Speechify’s Product Teams; inspire, play, and negotiate with opinionated designers, marketers, and PMs
Full Job Description
Mission Speechify is the easiest way to listen to the world’s information. Articles on the web, documents in the cloud, books on your phone. We absorb it all and let you listen to it at your desk, on the go, at your own speed, and with tools that make learning easier, deeper, and faster. What streaming services have done for audio entertainment, we’re doing for audio information. And whatever we’re doing seems to be working. We’re #1 in our category, and experiencing exponential growth. Overview We're looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our Core Experiences Team. This team builds and maintains the foundational services and SDKs that power Speechify’s product experience across platforms. It's a critical role for someone who enjoys working at the intersection of product and infrastructure, thinks strategically, and is passionate about designing clear, reliable APIs and simple systems that directly enhance the user experience. 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 Kotlin An Ideal Candidate Should Have 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
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