Hamburg, Germany On-site Full-time USD 30,000 – 120,000 / year

Speechify is hiring a Senior Software Engineer, Core Experiences - Hamburg, Germany

Responsibilities

  • Work with product teams to define project scope, reduce scope for faster customer feedback, manage integration and UX trade-offs, and deliver solutions through a cross-platform SDK.
  • Enhance existing features by designing more efficient abstractions and improving algorithms to achieve faster loading and smarter parsing.
  • Develop cloud functions, lightweight backend services, and scheduled jobs using Kotlin.

Requirements

  • Systems thinking: ability to optimize end-to-end design and value simplicity.
  • Speed: work quickly to generate ideas and options, and decide what can ship now versus later.
  • Focus: thrive in a high-growth startup with a remote team, knowing when to engage or work independently.
  • Collaboration: inspire, negotiate, and work effectively with opinionated designers, marketers, and product managers.

Nice to Have

  • Experience with Kotlin Multiplatform (Java experience acceptable, but role uses Kotlin Multiplatform).
  • Prior experience with Google Cloud Platform is a plus.

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.

Compensation

The Germany Based Salary range for this role is: 30,000-120,000 USD/Year + Bonus + Stock depending on experience.

Work Arrangement

Remote team

Team

High-growth startup with a busy, remote team

Job Details
Location Hamburg, Germany
Work mode On-site
Employment Full-time
Salary USD 30,000 – 120,000 / year
Department Core Experiences Team
Category Backend
Posted 14 days ago
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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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