Senior Software Engineer, Core Experiences - Madison, WI, USA

Speechify•Madison, WI

23h•Remote

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 ideal for an individual who thrives at the intersection of product and infrastructure, possesses strategic thinking abilities, and is passionate about creating clear, reliable APIs and simple systems that directly enhance the user experience. Speechify is a fast-growing company aiming to make the world's information accessible through listening.

Requirements

Systems thinking: Ability to understand that optimizing a system requires end-to-end design and valuing simplicity.
Speed: Ability to generate ideas and options quickly and determine what can ship now versus what needs more time.
Focus: Ability to engage or be heads down as needed in a busy, remote startup environment.
Collaboration: Ability to inspire, play, and negotiate with opinionated designers, marketers, and PMs.
Kotlin Multiplatform (Java experience is acceptable, but the role primarily uses 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, 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