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Speechify is hiring a Senior Software Engineer, Core Experiences - Lisbon, Portugal

About the Role

The role involves designing and implementing key features that shape the core user experience, working closely with product and design teams to deliver reliable, high-performance software.

Responsibilities

  • Develop and maintain core application features
  • Collaborate with product and design teams to define feature requirements
  • Write clean, testable, and well-documented code
  • Optimize application performance and scalability
  • Participate in code reviews and technical planning
  • Troubleshoot and resolve production issues
  • Contribute to architectural decisions
  • Ensure software reliability and maintainability
  • Implement robust testing practices
  • Support deployment and monitoring processes
  • Work with cross-functional teams to align on priorities
  • Drive engineering best practices across the team
  • Mentor junior engineers
  • Stay current with emerging technologies
  • Improve development workflows
  • Contribute to API design and integration
  • Ensure compatibility across platforms
  • Maintain focus on user-centric development
  • Support agile development cycles
  • Participate in sprint planning and retrospectives

Nice to Have

  • Experience in consumer-facing applications
  • Background in audio or media technologies
  • Familiarity with machine learning pipelines
  • Experience with mobile development
  • Knowledge of accessibility standards
  • Previous work in high-growth startups
  • Open source contributions
  • Experience with real-time systems
  • Understanding of data privacy regulations
  • Leadership in technical projects

Benefits

  • Health and wellness coverage
  • Retirement savings plan
  • Paid time off and holidays
  • Flexible work hours
  • Remote work support
  • Professional development stipend
  • Learning resources and courses
  • Team offsites and events
  • Parental leave
  • Mental health support
  • Stock options
  • Commuter benefits
  • Home office setup allowance
  • Life and disability insurance
  • Employee assistance program

Compensation

Competitive salary and equity package

Work Arrangement

Hybrid work model with flexibility for remote work

Team

Part of a high-impact engineering team focused on core product experiences

About the Team

The Core Experiences team builds foundational features used across the product. Engineers here work on performance, reliability, and scalability while ensuring a seamless user journey.

Why This Role Matters

This position directly influences how users interact with the product daily. Engineers shape the stability and evolution of core systems that serve millions.

Available for qualified candidates

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 19 days ago