Senior Software Engineer, Core Experiences - Mountain View, CA, USA
About The Position
Speechify is a rapidly growing company dedicated to making information accessible through audio. They enable users to listen to web articles, cloud documents, and phone books at their own pace, with tools designed to enhance learning. Positioned as the #1 in their category, Speechify is experiencing exponential growth. The company is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join their Core Experiences Team. This team is crucial for building and maintaining the foundational services and SDKs that power Speechify’s product experience across all platforms. The ideal candidate will thrive at the intersection of product and infrastructure, possess strategic thinking, and be 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. 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
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.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
