Senior Software Engineer, Core Experiences - Portland, OR, USA
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 abilities, and are passionate about creating clear, reliable APIs and simple systems that directly enhance the user experience. The ideal candidate will collaborate with Product Teams to define project scope, optimize for faster customer feedback, manage integration/UX trade-offs, and deliver solutions through a cross-platform SDK. Responsibilities include optimizing existing functionality for faster loading and more intelligent parsing through efficient abstractions and improved algorithms, and shipping cloud functions, lightweight backend services, and jobs using Kotlin.
Requirements
- Systems thinking. You know that optimizing a system requires end-to-end design, and you believe simplicity is valuable.
- Speed. You work quickly to generate ideas and options and know how to decide which things can ship now and what things need time
- Focus. We’re a high-growth startup with a busy, remote team. You know how and when to engage or be heads down
- Collaboration. You know how to inspire, play, and negotiate with opinionated designers, marketers, and PMs
- Kotlin Multiplatform (Java experience is OK but role is Kotlin Multiplatform)
- Prior experience with GCP is a plus
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
Benefits
- Competitive salaries
- A friendly and laid-back atmosphere
- A commitment to building a great asynchronous culture
- Bonus
- Stock
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
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