About the Role
Role details below.
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
- 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
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: you know how and when to engage or be heads down in a high-growth startup with a busy, remote team
- Collaboration: you know how to inspire, play, and negotiate with opinionated designers, marketers, and PMs
- Preferred Tech Stack: Kotlin Multiplatform (Java experience is OK but role is Kotlin Multiplatform)
Nice to Have
- Prior experience with GCP 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
- 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
Competitive salaries
Work Arrangement
Remote (City/Region)
Additional Information
- Think you’re a good fit for this job? Tell us more about yourself and why you're interested in the role when you apply
- Include links to your portfolio and LinkedIn
- 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
