Senior Software Engineer, Core Experiences - Washington, DC, USA

Speechify•Washington, DC

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 critical for individuals who enjoy working 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. Speechify is a fast-growing company aiming to make information accessible through listening, similar to how streaming services transformed audio entertainment. They are a leader in their category and are experiencing significant growth.

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 decide which things can ship now and 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 emphasizes 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.
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.
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