Senior Software Engineer, Core Experiences - Tacoma, WA, USA

Speechify•Tacoma, WA

23h•Remote

About The Position

Speechify is the easiest way to listen to the world’s information, aiming to do for audio information what streaming services have done for audio entertainment. The company is #1 in its category and experiencing exponential growth. This role is for a Senior Software Engineer to join the Core Experiences Team, which builds and maintains foundational services and SDKs powering Speechify’s product experience across platforms. The position is critical for someone who enjoys working at the intersection of product and infrastructure, thinks strategically, and is passionate about designing clear, reliable APIs and simple systems that directly enhance the user experience.

Requirements

Systems thinking: Ability to understand that optimizing a system requires end-to-end design and valuing 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 in a busy, remote team 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