Senior Software Engineer, Core Experiences - Fremont, CA, USA

Speechify•Fremont, CA

2d•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 critical for individuals who thrive at the intersection of product and infrastructure, possess strategic thinking skills, and are passionate about designing clear, reliable APIs and simple systems that directly enhance the user experience. The ideal candidate will have strong systems thinking, the ability to work quickly and decisively, focus in a fast-paced startup environment, and excellent collaboration skills with cross-functional teams.

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)

Nice To Haves

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