Job Overview
Location
Salvador, 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 and reduce scope for faster feedback, optimizing existing functionality for faster loading and intelligent parsing via efficient abstractions and improved algorithms, 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 faster for millions of users, including those with learning differences.
- • The role offers the opportunity to shape the product and company, work with an entrepreneurial team, make a big impact in a transformative industry at the intersection of AI and audio, and build products that support people with dyslexia, ADD, low vision, autism, and more.
🎯 Requirements
- • Systems thinking with end-to-end design orientation and belief in simplicity as a value.
- • Ability to work quickly, generate ideas, and decide what can ship now versus what needs more time.
- • Strong focus and judgment on when to engage collaboratively versus work heads down in a high-growth, remote startup environment.
- • Collaboration skills to inspire, negotiate, and work effectively with opinionated designers, marketers, and product managers.
- • Preferred: Kotlin Multiplatform experience (Java experience acceptable but Kotlin Multiplatform is required).
- • Preferred: Prior experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
🏖️ Benefits
- • Fast-growing environment where you can help shape the company and product.
- • Entrepreneurial-minded team that supports risk, intuition, and hustle.
- • Hands-off management approach enabling focus and best work.
- • Competitive salaries and a friendly, laid-back atmosphere.
- • Commitment to building a great asynchronous culture.
- • Opportunity to work on a life-changing product used by millions, impacting people with learning differences.
- • Work in one of the fastest-growing tech sectors: the intersection of artificial intelligence and audio.
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.
Subscribe to the weekly newsletter for similar remote roles and curated hiring updates.
Newsletter
Weekly remote jobs and featured talent.
No spam. Only curated remote roles and product updates. You can unsubscribe anytime.
Similar Opportunities
The Allstate Corporation
1 month ago
Workato, Inc.
20 days ago
