Job Overview
Location
Mexico City, Mexico
Job Type
Full-time
Category
Software Engineering
Date Posted
April 21, 2026
Full Job Description
đź“‹ Description
- • Senior Software Engineer, Core Experiences at Speechify Inc. in Mexico City, Mexico – a critical role building foundational services and SDKs that power the product experience across platforms, directly enhancing how users listen to and learn from the world’s information.
- • Day to day: Collaborate with product teams to scope projects and reduce scope for faster customer feedback; optimize existing functionality for faster loading and intelligent parsing via efficient abstractions and improved algorithms; ship cloud functions, lightweight backend services, and jobs using Kotlin.
- • About the team or company: Speechify is the #1 audio information platform, experiencing exponential growth by turning web articles, cloud documents, and books into listenable content at user-controlled speed; the Core Experiences team builds the infrastructure that enables seamless, reliable, and scalable user experiences across all platforms.
- • What the person can learn or achieve: Deepen expertise in Kotlin Multiplatform and cloud-native backend systems; drive impact on a product used by millions to support learning differences like dyslexia, ADD, and low vision; grow technically and strategically in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment shaping the intersection of AI and audio.
🎯 Requirements
- • Systems thinking with end-to-end design orientation and a belief in simplicity as a core value.
- • Proven ability to work quickly, generate ideas, and make pragmatic decisions about what to ship now versus what needs more time.
- • Strong focus and self-direction in a high-growth, remote startup environment, knowing when to collaborate and when to work heads down.
- • Excellent collaboration skills to inspire, negotiate, and align with designers, marketers, and product managers.
- • Preferred: Kotlin Multiplatform experience (Java background acceptable); prior experience with GCP is a plus.
🏖️ Benefits
- • Fast-growing environment where you can help shape the company and product.
- • 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 directly support people with learning differences such as dyslexia, ADD, low vision, concussions, and autism.
- • Work in one of the fastest-growing tech sectors: 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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