About the Role
This is a key role ideal for someone who thinks strategically, enjoys fast-paced environments, is passionate about making product decisions, and has experience building great user experiences that delight users. Speechify's mission is to ensure reading is never a barrier to learning, with over 50 million users benefiting from its text-to-speech products.
Responsibilities
- Actively ship production code to the web products
- Work closely with your dedicated product team
- Participate in product discussions to shape the product roadmap
- Work on new and exciting features that will impact millions of lives
Requirements
- Experience building and shipping products that have scaled to thousands or millions of users
- Customer obsession and a desire to build high-quality products that serve customer needs
- Ability to work quickly, generate ideas, and decide what can ship now versus what needs more time
- Ability to engage or be heads down as needed in a busy, remote team environment
- Ability to inspire, play, and negotiate with opinionated designers, marketers, and PMs
- Include links to your portfolio and LinkedIn when applying
Skills
- Vanilla JS
- ReactJS
- Redux
- Firebase
- Typescript
Location
- Remote
Work Type
- 100% distributed setting
- Remote
Experience Level
- Experience building and shipping products that have scaled to thousands or millions of users
Salary/Compensations
- Competitive salary
Benefits
- A fast-growing environment where you can help shape the culture
- An entrepreneurial crew that supports risk, intuition, and hustle
- A hands-off approach so you can focus and do your best work
- The opportunity to make an impact in a transformative industry
- A collegiate atmosphere
- A commitment to building a great asynchronous culture
About the Company
- Speechify's mission is to make sure reading is never a barrier to learning.
- Over 50 million people use Speechify’s text-to-speech products.
- Speechify's products turn reading materials into audio, enabling users to read faster, read more, and remember more.
- Speechify's text-to-speech reading products include its iOS app, Android App, Mac App, Chrome Extension, and Web App.
- Google recently named Speechify the Chrome Extension of the Year and Apple named Speechify its App of the Day.
- Nearly 200 people work on Speechify in a 100% distributed setting with no office.
- The team includes frontend and backend engineers, AI research scientists, and individuals from companies like Google, Amazon, and Microsoft, as well as leading PhD programs and high-growth startups.
- Speechify is a flat organization that allows anyone to become a leader by demonstrating excellent technical skills and delivering results consistently and fast.
- Work ethic, solid communication skills, and obsession with winning are paramount.
- The interview process involves several technical interviews and aims to be completed within 1 week.
Equal Opportunity
- Speechify is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace.
- Speechify does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status.
