Overview

This is a key role and ideal for someone who thinks strategically, enjoys fast-paced environments, passionate about making product decisions, and has experience building great user experiences that delight users.

We are a flat organization that allows anyone to become a leader by showing excellent technical skills and delivering results consistently and fast. Work ethic, solid communication skills, and obsession with winning are paramount.

Our interview process involves several technical interviews and we aim to complete them within 1 week.

As Speechify expands, our AI team seeks a Senior Backend Engineer. This role is central to ensuring our infrastructure scales efficiently, optimizing key product flows, and constructing resilient end-to-end systems. If you are passionate about strategizing, enjoy high-paced environments, and are eager to take ownership of product decisions, we’d love to hear from you.

Responsibilities:
What You’ll Do
  • State of the art voice cloning
  • Low latency and cost effective text to speech
Required Qualifications:
An Ideal Candidate Should Have
  • Proven experience in backend development: Python
  • Direct experience with GCP and knowledge of AWS, Azure, or other cloud providers.
  • Efficiency in ideation and implementation, prioritizing tasks based on urgency and impact.
  • Experience with Docker and containerized deployments.
  • Proficiency in deploying high availability applications on Kubernetes.
  • Preferred: Experience deploying NLP or TTS models to production.
Benefits:
What We Offer
  • A dynamic environment where your contributions shape the company and its products.
  • A team that values innovation, intuition, and drive.
  • Autonomy, fostering focus and creativity.
  • The opportunity to have a significant impact in a revolutionary industry.
  • Competitive compensation, a welcoming atmosphere, and a commitment to an exceptional asynchronous work culture.
  • The privilege of working on a product that changes lives, particularly for those with learning differences like dyslexia, ADD, and more.
  • An active role at the intersection of artificial intelligence and audio – a rapidly evolving tech domain.
Additional Information:
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About Speechify

Speechify’s mission is to eliminate reading as a barrier to learning by converting text into audio. Over 50 million users rely on Speechify’s text-to-speech tools to listen to PDFs, books, articles, and more, helping them read faster and retain information better. Their products include apps for iOS, Android, Mac, a Chrome extension, and a web app, earning recognition from Google and Apple for design and inclusivity. The company operates fully remotely with nearly 200 employees worldwide, including engineers, AI researchers, and experts from top tech companies and universities. Together, they are dedicated to making reading accessible for everyone.

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