Boston, MA, USA Hybrid Employment 140,000-200,000 USD/Year

Speechify is hiring a Senior Software Engineer, Core Experiences - Boston, MA, USA

Responsibilities

  • Work with various product teams to define project scopes, expedite customer feedback, balance integration and user experience trade-offs, and implement solutions through a cross-platform SDK.
  • Enhance existing features to improve performance, such as faster loading times and smarter parsing, by creating more efficient abstractions and refining algorithms.
  • Develop and deploy cloud functions, lightweight backend services, and jobs using Kotlin.

Requirements

  • Possess systems thinking skills, understanding that optimizing a system requires comprehensive design and valuing simplicity.
  • Work swiftly to generate ideas, evaluate options, and determine what can be shipped immediately and what requires more time.
  • Maintain focus in a high-growth startup environment, knowing when to engage with the team and when to work independently.
  • Collaborate effectively with designers, marketers, and product managers, inspiring and negotiating to achieve common goals.

Nice to Have

  • Experience with GCP is advantageous.

Benefits

  • Contribute to a rapidly growing company and influence its direction and products.
  • Join a team that encourages risk-taking, intuition, and hard work.
  • Experience a hands-off management style that allows for focused work.
  • Make a significant impact in a transformative industry.
  • Receive competitive compensation, enjoy a friendly work environment, and benefit from a strong asynchronous culture.
  • Work on a product that millions of people use daily.
  • Develop products that support individuals with learning differences such as dyslexia, ADD, low vision, concussions, autism, and more.
  • Be part of one of the fastest-growing sectors in tech, at the intersection of artificial intelligence and audio.

Compensation

Competitive

Work Arrangement

Hybrid

Team

Core Experiences Team

Other

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Speechify

Speechify reads anything aloud to you, allowing users to listen to books, PDFs, web pages, and more with natural-sounding voices. It offers text-to-speech, voice typing, and AI voice assistant capabilities across multiple platforms and devices.

The platform supports a wide range of use cases, including reading documents aloud, voice dictation, podcast creation, and real-time answers using AI. Speechify integrates across web, mobile, and desktop environments, including Chrome, Edge, iOS, Android, Windows, and macOS.

With over 55 million users, Speechify features lifelike AI voices, including celebrity voices like Snoop Dogg and Gwyneth Paltrow, and has been recognized with awards such as the Apple Design Award and Chrome Extension of the Year.

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Job Details
Department Core Experiences Team
Category backend
Posted 2 hours ago