Job Overview
Location
Shanghai, China
Job Type
Full-time
Category
Software Engineering
Date Posted
May 25, 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, critical for enhancing user experience through reliable APIs and simple systems.
- • 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 leading in audio information technology with exponential growth and a mission to make learning easier, deeper, and faster.
- • Opportunity to work at the intersection of product and infrastructure, think strategically, design clear APIs, and directly impact user experience while contributing to a life-changing product used by millions, especially supporting people with learning differences.
🎯 Requirements
- • Systems thinking with end-to-end design mindset and belief in simplicity as valuable.
- • Ability to work quickly, generate ideas, and decide what can ship now versus what needs more time.
- • Strong focus and ability to balance engagement with heads-down work in a high-growth, remote startup environment.
- • Collaboration skills to inspire, negotiate, and work effectively with designers, marketers, and product managers.
- • Preferred experience with Kotlin Multiplatform (Java experience acceptable) and prior exposure to GCP is a plus.
🏖️ 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 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, autism, and more.
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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