Job Overview
Location
Madrid, Spain
Job Type
Full-time
Category
Software Engineering
Date Posted
April 21, 2026
Full Job Description
đź“‹ Description
- • Senior Software Engineer role focused on building and maintaining foundational services and SDKs that power Speechify’s product experience across platforms, directly enhancing user interaction with audio information.
- • 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 and lightweight backend services using Kotlin.
- • Part of the Core Experiences Team at Speechify, a fast-growing company revolutionizing how people consume information through audio, with a mission to make learning easier, deeper, and faster for millions.
- • Opportunity to design clear, reliable APIs and simple systems at the intersection of product and infrastructure, with direct impact on user experience and exposure to cutting-edge AI and audio technology.
🎯 Requirements
- • Strong systems thinking with an emphasis on end-to-end design and valuing simplicity in complex systems.
- • Proven ability to work quickly, generate ideas efficiently, and make pragmatic decisions about what to ship now versus what needs more time.
- • Demonstrated focus and adaptability in a high-growth, remote startup environment, knowing when to engage collaboratively and when to work heads-down.
- • Experience collaborating effectively with cross-functional teams including designers, marketers, and product managers.
- • Proficiency in Kotlin Multiplatform (Java experience acceptable); prior experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) is a plus.
🏖️ Benefits
- • Fast-growing environment where you can help shape the company and product direction.
- • Entrepreneurial-minded team that supports risk-taking, intuition, and hustle.
- • Hands-off management approach enabling focus and high-quality work.
- • Opportunity to make a big impact in a transformative industry at the intersection of AI and audio.
- • Competitive salaries, friendly and laid-back atmosphere, and commitment to a great asynchronous culture.
- • Chance to build products that support people with learning differences such as dyslexia, ADD, low vision, concussions, and autism.
- • Work in one of the fastest-growing sectors of tech: AI-powered audio information.
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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