Oakland, CA, USA On-site Employment 140,000-200,000 USD/Year

Speechify is hiring a Tech Lead, Web Core Product & Chrome Extension

About the Role

Guide architecture and implementation for web-based platforms and browser extensions, ensuring robust, maintainable code and alignment with product goals.

Responsibilities

  • Lead design and development of scalable web applications
  • Own technical direction for core web product features
  • Architect and maintain Chrome extension infrastructure
  • Collaborate with product and design teams to define requirements
  • Drive best practices in code quality and testing
  • Mentor engineers and conduct code reviews
  • Optimize front-end performance and accessibility
  • Ensure cross-browser compatibility and reliability
  • Implement modern JavaScript frameworks and tooling
  • Integrate with backend APIs and services
  • Monitor and resolve production issues
  • Improve development workflows and CI/CD pipelines
  • Evaluate and adopt new technologies
  • Support deployment and release processes
  • Contribute to security and privacy standards
  • Lead sprint planning and technical estimation
  • Document system architecture and decisions
  • Promote reusability and component design
  • Work closely with QA to ensure product quality
  • Balance innovation with technical debt management

Nice to Have

  • Experience with TypeScript
  • Familiarity with Web Components
  • Knowledge of service workers and offline capabilities
  • Experience with build tools like Webpack or Vite
  • Background in accessibility standards
  • Experience with analytics and telemetry
  • Familiarity with DevOps practices
  • Knowledge of A/B testing frameworks
  • Open source contributions
  • Experience scaling web platforms

Compensation

Competitive salary with equity and benefits

Work Arrangement

Remote-friendly with team collaboration expectations

Team

Part of a fast-growing product engineering team focused on web innovation

About the Team

  • Work within a dedicated engineering unit focused on core web technologies and browser integrations
  • Collaborate with product managers and designers to shape user-facing features
  • Engage in technical planning and roadmap development

What We Build

  • Develop high-performance web applications used daily by global users
  • Maintain and extend a widely used Chrome browser extension
  • Focus on seamless integration between web and extension experiences

Available for qualified candidates

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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 Web Core Product & Chrome Extension
Category management
Posted 2 hours ago