Senior Software Engineer, Core Experiences - Knoxville, TN, USA

Speechify•Knoxville, TN

16h•$140,000 - $200,000•Remote

About The Position

Speechify is dedicated to making the world's information accessible through audio, allowing users to listen to articles, documents, and books at their own pace with tools designed for enhanced learning. The company is a leader in its category, experiencing exponential growth. This role is for a Senior Software Engineer to join the Core Experiences Team, which is responsible for building and maintaining the foundational services and SDKs that power Speechify’s product across various platforms. It is a critical position for someone who thrives at the intersection of product and infrastructure, thinks strategically, and is passionate about designing clear, reliable APIs and simple systems that directly improve the user experience.

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: You know how and when to engage or be heads down in a high-growth startup with a busy, remote team
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

Benefits

A fast-growing environment where you can help shape the company and product.
An entrepreneurial-minded team that supports risk, intuition, and hustle.
A hands-off management approach so you can focus and do your best work.
An opportunity to make a big impact in a transformative industry.
Competitive salaries, a friendly and laid-back atmosphere, and a commitment to building a great asynchronous culture.
Opportunity to work on a life-changing product that millions of people use.
Build products that directly impact and support people with learning differences like dyslexia, ADD, low vision, concussions, autism, and more.
Work in one of the fastest growing sectors of tech, the intersection of artificial intelligence and audio.
Bonus
Stock