Job Overview
Location
Bellevue, WA, USA
Job Type
Full-time
Category
Software Engineering
Date Posted
May 25, 2026
Full Job Description
đź“‹ Description
- • Collaborate with Product Teams to scope projects, reduce scope for faster customer feedback, and navigate integration/UX tradeoffs across platforms using Speechify’s cross-platform SDK.
- • Optimize existing functionality to improve performance, including faster loading times and more intelligent parsing, by designing more efficient abstractions and enhancing core algorithms.
- • Ship cloud functions, lightweight backend services, and background jobs using Kotlin.
- • Design and maintain foundational services and SDKs that power Speechify’s product experience across all platforms.
- • Work at the intersection of product and infrastructure to build clear, reliable APIs and simple systems that directly enhance user experience.
- • Apply systems thinking to solve problems with end-to-end design, prioritizing simplicity and long-term maintainability.
- • Work quickly to generate ideas, evaluate options, and determine what can ship immediately versus what requires further refinement.
- • Maintain focus in a high-growth, remote startup environment by knowing when to engage collaboratively and when to work independently.
- • Collaborate effectively with opinionated designers, marketers, and product managers through inspiration, negotiation, and constructive dialogue.
- • Contribute to a life-changing product used by millions, with direct impact on users who have learning differences such as dyslexia, ADD, low vision, concussions, and autism.
- • Operate within a fast-growing tech sector at the intersection of artificial intelligence and audio, shaping the future of audio information consumption.
- • Work in an entrepreneurial-minded team that supports risk-taking, intuition, and proactive problem-solving.
- • Operate under a hands-off management approach that enables deep focus and autonomy in delivering high-impact work.
- • Build and maintain a scalable, asynchronous culture that supports distributed team collaboration and high output.
🎯 Requirements
- • Proficiency in Kotlin, with experience in Kotlin Multiplatform preferred
- • Experience building and maintaining cross-platform SDKs
- • Strong systems thinking and ability to design end-to-end solutions with simplicity as a priority
- • Proven ability to ship high-quality code quickly in a fast-paced, remote startup environment
- • Experience with cloud functions and lightweight backend services
- • Prior experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) is a plus
🏖️ Benefits
- • Competitive salary range of $140,000–$200,000 USD/year plus bonus and stock
- • Opportunity to work on a life-changing product used by millions, especially those with learning differences
- • Entrepreneurial-minded team culture that supports risk, intuition, and hustle
- • Hands-off management style enabling autonomy and deep focus
- • Fast-growing environment where you can help shape the company and product
- • Commitment to building a great asynchronous, remote-first culture
Skills & Technologies
About Speechify Inc.
Speechify provides text-to-speech software that converts written text into natural-sounding audio. The platform supports web, desktop, and mobile applications, enabling users to listen to documents, articles, PDFs, emails, and other text formats. It offers multiple voices, adjustable playback speeds, and integrations with cloud storage and productivity tools. Targeting students, professionals, and individuals with reading difficulties such as dyslexia, the service aims to improve reading efficiency and accessibility through AI-generated speech synthesis.
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