Kochi, India On-site

Speechify is hiring a Senior Software Engineer, Core Experiences - Kochi, India

About the Role

This role involves designing, developing, and optimizing foundational software systems that power key user-facing features, ensuring high performance, scalability, and reliability across platforms.

Responsibilities

  • Design and implement scalable backend services and APIs
  • Collaborate with product and design teams to define feature requirements
  • Own end-to-end development of critical application components
  • Improve system reliability and performance through monitoring and optimization
  • Write clean, maintainable, and well-tested code
  • Participate in architectural discussions and technical planning
  • Troubleshoot and resolve production issues in a timely manner
  • Mentor junior engineers and contribute to team knowledge sharing
  • Integrate with frontend systems to deliver seamless user experiences
  • Ensure code quality through code reviews and best practices
  • Work with data storage solutions to manage large-scale information
  • Implement security best practices across services
  • Support deployment pipelines and CI/CD workflows
  • Evaluate new technologies for potential adoption
  • Contribute to documentation for systems and processes
  • Drive improvements in system observability and error tracking
  • Optimize application performance under real-world conditions
  • Collaborate across teams to align on technical standards
  • Maintain uptime and reliability for core services
  • Respond to incidents and support on-call rotations when needed
  • Ensure compliance with data privacy and regulatory standards
  • Refactor legacy systems to improve maintainability
  • Support integration with third-party platforms and tools
  • Conduct technical investigations for complex problems
  • Promote engineering excellence across the development lifecycle

Nice to Have

  • Master’s degree in computer science or related field
  • Experience with large-scale, high-traffic applications
  • Background in real-time systems or streaming data
  • Familiarity with frontend frameworks and full-stack development
  • Knowledge of machine learning infrastructure
  • Experience in voice or audio processing technologies
  • Contributions to open-source software projects
  • Prior work in user-facing product companies
  • Exposure to edge computing or low-latency systems
  • Leadership experience in technical projects

Compensation

Competitive salary based on experience and market standards

Work Arrangement

Hybrid work model with office presence in Kochi

Team

Part of a growing engineering team focused on core product functionality

Why This Role Matters

  • You will play a key role in shaping the foundational technology behind widely used user experiences.
  • Your work will directly impact performance, scalability, and user satisfaction.

What We Value

  • Technical depth combined with practical problem solving.
  • Ownership, collaboration, and a drive for continuous improvement.

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About company
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 other
Posted 20 days ago