Senior Software Engineer, Core Experiences - Kansas City, MO, USA

Speechify • Kansas City, MO

23h • Onsite

About The Position

Speechify is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join their Core Experiences Team. This team is responsible for building and maintaining the foundational services and SDKs that power Speechify’s product experience across all platforms. The role is critical for individuals who thrive at the intersection of product and infrastructure, possess strategic thinking skills, and are passionate about creating clear, reliable APIs and simple systems that directly enhance the user experience. The company is experiencing exponential growth and is a leader in its category, aiming to do for audio information what streaming services have done for audio entertainment.

Requirements

• Systems thinking: Ability to understand that optimizing a system requires end-to-end design and a belief in the value of simplicity.
• Speed: Ability to work quickly to generate ideas and options, and to discern which items can ship immediately versus those requiring more time.
• Focus: Ability to engage effectively or work heads-down in a busy, remote startup environment.
• Collaboration: Skill in inspiring, playing, and negotiating with opinionated designers, marketers, and PMs.
• Kotlin Multiplatform (Java experience is acceptable, but the role emphasizes Kotlin Multiplatform).

Nice To Haves

• Prior experience with GCP.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• Deliver solutions via our cross-platform SDK.
• Optimize existing functionality to ship improvements like faster loading and more intelligent parsing by designing more efficient abstractions and improving algorithms.
• Ship cloud functions, lightweight backend services, and jobs using Kotlin.

Benefits

• Competitive salaries
• Friendly and laid-back atmosphere
• Commitment to building a great asynchronous culture
• Opportunity to work on a life-changing product used by millions
• Opportunity to build products that directly impact and support people with learning differences (dyslexia, ADD, low vision, concussions, autism, etc.)
• Work in a fast-growing sector at the intersection of artificial intelligence and audio
• Bonus
• Stock

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed