Job Overview
Location
Belo Horizonte, Brazil
Job Type
Full-time
Category
Software Engineering
Date Posted
May 25, 2026
Full Job Description
📋 Description
- • Senior Software Engineer role on the Core Experiences Team at Speechify, building foundational services and SDKs that power the product experience across platforms, critical for enhancing user experience through reliable APIs and simple systems.
- • Day-to-day responsibilities include collaborating with Product Teams to scope projects, optimizing existing functionality for faster loading and intelligent parsing, and shipping cloud functions, lightweight backend services, and jobs using Kotlin.
- • Speechify is a fast-growing startup revolutionizing audio information consumption, ranked #1 in its category with exponential growth, committed to making learning easier and accessible for millions, including people with learning differences.
- • The role offers the opportunity to work at the intersection of product and infrastructure, think strategically, design clear APIs, and directly impact user experience while contributing to a mission-driven product used by millions worldwide.
🎯 Requirements
- • Systems thinking with end-to-end design mindset and belief in simplicity
- • Ability to work quickly, generate ideas, and decide what can ship now vs. needs more time
- • Strong focus and ability to balance heads-down work with collaboration in a high-growth remote startup environment
- • Experience collaborating effectively with designers, marketers, and product managers
- • Preferred: Kotlin Multiplatform experience (Java experience acceptable)
- • Preferred: Prior experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
🏖️ Benefits
- • Fast-growing environment where you can help shape the company and product
- • Entrepreneurial-minded team supporting risk, intuition, and hustle
- • Hands-off management approach enabling focus and best work
- • Competitive salaries and a friendly, laid-back atmosphere
- • Opportunity to build products impacting people with learning differences (dyslexia, ADD, low vision, etc.)
- • Work in the fast-growing intersection of artificial intelligence and audio technology
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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