Job Overview
Location
Palo Alto, CA, 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 metrics such as faster loading times and more intelligent parsing by designing efficient abstractions and refining algorithms.
- • Ship cloud functions, lightweight backend services, and background jobs using Kotlin.
- • Design and maintain foundational services and SDKs that power Speechify’s core product experience across all platforms.
- • Balance strategic system design with rapid iteration, identifying what can ship immediately versus what requires longer-term refinement.
- • Work closely with designers, marketers, and product managers to inspire, negotiate, and align on technical solutions that enhance user experience.
- • Focus on simplicity and reliability in API design and system architecture to ensure scalability and maintainability.
- • Contribute to a high-growth startup environment with a remote, asynchronous team, knowing when to engage collaboratively and when to work independently.
- • Build systems that directly support users with learning differences including dyslexia, ADD, low vision, concussions, and autism.
- • Work at the intersection of product and infrastructure, translating user needs into robust technical solutions that enable seamless audio information consumption.
- • Drive end-to-end system optimization by considering the full stack—from client-side SDKs to cloud-based backend services.
- • Prioritize measurable improvements in user experience through technical innovation in audio parsing, delivery, and playback.
- • Maintain a hands-on approach to engineering while operating in a low-management, high-autonomy culture focused on results.
- • Contribute to a product that is transforming how people access information through audio, positioning Speechify as the leading platform in its category.
- • Engage with a team that values intuition, risk-taking, and entrepreneurial hustle in a fast-moving tech environment.
🎯 Requirements
- • Proficiency in Kotlin, with experience in Kotlin Multiplatform preferred
- • Strong systems thinking and ability to design end-to-end solutions with simplicity and reliability as priorities
- • Experience shipping cloud functions, backend services, or jobs using Kotlin
- • Proven ability to collaborate effectively with product, design, and marketing teams in a fast-paced startup
- • Demonstrated speed in generating and executing technical solutions while prioritizing what to ship now versus later
- • Focus and discipline to thrive in a remote, asynchronous, high-growth environment
🏖️ 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 supporting users with learning differences
- • Entrepreneurial-minded team culture that supports risk, intuition, and hustle
- • Hands-off management approach enabling deep focus and autonomy
- • Work in one of the fastest-growing sectors at the intersection of AI and audio
- • Commitment to building a diverse, inclusive, and asynchronous workplace
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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