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

Speechify•Nashville, TN

4d•$140,000 - $200,000•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 creating clear, reliable APIs and straightforward systems that directly enhance the user experience. Speechify is a fast-growing company aiming to be the easiest way to listen to the world’s information, similar to 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 what can ship now versus what needs more time.
Focus: Ability to engage effectively and know when to be heads down in a busy, remote startup environment.
Collaboration: Ability 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