
Job Overview
Location
Knoxville, TN, USA
Job Type
Full-time
Category
Software Engineering
Date Posted
April 21, 2026
Full Job Description
📋 Description
- • Senior Software Engineer on the Core Experiences Team at Speechify, responsible for building and maintaining foundational services and SDKs that power the product experience across platforms, directly enhancing how users listen to and interact with information.
- • Day-to-day responsibilities include collaborating with product teams to scope and deliver cross-platform SDK solutions, optimizing system performance through efficient abstractions and improved algorithms, and shipping cloud functions and lightweight backend services using Kotlin.
- • Speechify is a fast-growing, mission-driven company that converts text to speech to make information more accessible, serving millions of users and leading its category with exponential growth; the Core Experiences Team is critical to enabling seamless, high-quality audio experiences across devices.
- • In this role, you will deepen your expertise in systems thinking, Kotlin Multiplatform, and cloud-based backend development while making a tangible impact on accessibility and learning for users with dyslexia, ADD, low vision, and other needs, all within a high-autonomy, entrepreneurial environment.
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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