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About the Role
The Platform team owns the backend systems for Speechify's text-to-speech products, including APIs, payments, subscriptions, and analytics, serving over 50 million users. The role focuses on improving system efficiency, reliability, and scalability, with a growth path centered on taking ownership and driving impactful changes.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and own the APIs for payments, subscriptions, authentication, consumption tracking, and the public TTS API.
- Enhance existing services to improve speed, reduce costs, and increase reliability.
- Ensure changes are validated before deployment and establish checks for ongoing correctness.
- Automate repetitive tasks to free up capacity for more complex challenges.
- Develop reusable solutions and processes for the team.
- Design B2B and enterprise integrations for customers utilizing Speechify's platform.
- Collaborate with product, mobile, and web teams to align backend architecture with product roadmaps.
Requirements
- Proven backend experience in TS/Node is required.
- Direct experience with GCP is required; working knowledge of AWS, Azure, or another cloud is expected.
- Demonstrated ability to delegate work and create opportunities for growth.
- Experience with daily use of AI agents, including their setup, review processes, and limitations.
- Instinct to validate results by checking system internals (logs, database state, requests) rather than summaries.
- Judgment to determine what not to build and clearly articulate the reasoning.
- Preference for being corrected over being right.
- Preferred: Docker and containerized deployments.
- Preferred: Experience deploying high-availability applications on Kubernetes.
Skills
- TS/Node
- GCP
- AWS
- Azure
- AI agents
- Docker
- Kubernetes
Location
- 100% distributed setting
Work Type
- Remote
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Mid-level
- Senior
Salary/Compensations
- 140,000-200,000 USD/Year + Bonus + Stock
Benefits
- Competitive compensation
- Welcoming atmosphere
- Commitment to an exceptional asynchronous work culture
- Opportunity to work on a product that changes lives
- Active role at the intersection of artificial intelligence and audio
About the Company
- Speechify's mission is to ensure reading is never a barrier to learning.
- Over 50 million people use Speechify's text-to-speech products.
- Speechify has no offices and operates in a 100% distributed setting with nearly 200 employees globally.
- Google named Speechify the Chrome Extension of the Year.
- Apple named Speechify its 2025 Design Award winner for Inclusivity.
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.