Software Engineer, Platform - Mumbai, India
Speechify
IndiaremotePosted 21 days ago
Skill Required
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Key highlights
- Competitive compensation (no specific salary range stated)
- Required: Proven backend development experience with TS/Node
- Required: Direct experience with GCP and knowledge of AWS, Azure, or other cloud providers
- 100% distributed company with no office; exceptional asynchronous work culture
- Interview process aims to be completed within 1 week
- Nearly 200 people globally in a flat organization
Role overview
The Platform team at Speechify builds and maintains all backend services, including but not limited to payments, analytics, subscriptions, new products, text to speech, and external APIs. This is a key role ideal for someone who thinks strategically, enjoys fast-paced environments, is passionate about making product decisions, and has experience building great user experiences that delight users. Speechify operates as a flat organization where anyone can become a leader by showing excellent technical skills and delivering results consistently and fast; work ethic, solid communication skills, and obsession with winning are paramount. The interview process involves several technical interviews and aims to be completed within 1 week.
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain robust APIs including public TTS API, internal APIs like Payment, Subscription, Auth and Consumption Tracking, ensuring they meet business and scalability requirements
- Oversee the full backend API landscape, enhancing and optimizing for performance and maintainability
- Collaborate on B2B solutions, focusing on customization and integration needs for enterprise clients
- Work closely with cross-functional teams to align backend architecture with overall product strategy and user experience
Requirements
- Proven experience in backend development: TS/Node (required)
- Direct experience with GCP and knowledge of AWS, Azure, or other cloud providers
- Efficiency in ideation and implementation, prioritizing tasks based on urgency and impact
Nice to have
- Preferred: Experience with Docker and containerized deployments
- Preferred: Proficiency in deploying high availability applications on Kubernetes
Benefits
- A dynamic environment where your contributions shape the company and its products
- A team that values innovation, intuition, and drive
- Autonomy, fostering focus and creativity
- The opportunity to have a significant impact in a revolutionary industry
- Competitive compensation, a welcoming atmosphere, and a commitment to an exceptional asynchronous work culture
- The privilege of working on a product that changes lives, particularly for those with learning differences like dyslexia, ADD, and more
- An active role at the intersection of artificial intelligence and audio – a rapidly evolving tech domain
Additional details
- Company mission: The mission of Speechify is to make sure that reading is never a barrier to learning
- Over 50 million people use Speechify's text-to-speech products to turn whatever they're reading – PDFs, books, Google Docs, news articles, websites – into audio, so they can read faster, read more, and remember more
- Speechify's text-to-speech reading products include its iOS app, Android App, Mac App, Chrome Extension, and Web App
- Google recently named Speechify the Chrome Extension of the Year
- Apple named Speechify its 2025 Design Award winner for Inclusivity
- Today, nearly 200 people around the globe work on Speechify in a 100% distributed setting – Speechify has no office
- Team includes frontend and backend engineers, AI research scientists, and others from Amazon, Microsoft, and Google, leading PhD programs like Stanford, high growth startups like Stripe, Vercel, Bolt, and many founders of their own companies
- Flat organization that allows anyone to become a leader by showing excellent technical skills and delivering results consistently and fast
- Interview process involves several technical interviews and aims to be completed within 1 week
- Application instructions: Tell us more about yourself and why you're interested in the role when you apply, and don't forget to include links to your portfolio and LinkedIn
- Referral note: Not looking but know someone who would make a great fit? Refer them!
- Speechify is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace
- Speechify does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status
- Originally posted on Himalayas