Job Overview
Location
Brighton, United Kingdom
Job Type
Full-time
Category
Software Engineering
Date Posted
May 25, 2026
Full Job Description
đź“‹ Description
- • Lead key engineering and product decisions for the Speechify iOS app, which is ranked #18 in the App Store Productivity category and received Apple’s 2025 Design Award for inclusivity.
- • Actively ship production code for the Speechify iOS application, ensuring high-quality, scalable, and performant features.
- • Work within a dedicated product team to collaborate on feature development, technical design, and user experience improvements.
- • Participate in product discussions to shape the roadmap, influencing direction through technical insight and customer-focused thinking.
- • Maintain and enhance the existing complex iOS app architecture, ensuring long-term stability and extensibility.
- • Build user experiences that delight millions of users, including individuals with learning differences such as Dyslexia, ADD, Low Vision, Concussions, Autism, and Second Language Learners.
- • Contribute to a fast-paced, remote, and asynchronous environment where speed, focus, and execution are critical to growth.
- • Drive product thinking by making thoughtful decisions about feature evolution and aligning with designers and internal teams on optimal solutions.
- • Balance rapid iteration with technical excellence, knowing when to ship quickly and when to invest in foundational improvements.
- • Operate in a flat organization where leadership is earned through technical skill, consistent delivery, and a results-driven work ethic.
- • Engage in a rigorous technical interview process designed to be completed within one week, focusing on real-world engineering challenges.
- • Work on a product recognized by Apple as App of the Day and by Google as Chrome Extension of the Year, used by over 50 million people worldwide.
- • Support a transformative mission: removing barriers to reading by turning text from PDFs, books, Google Docs, news articles, and websites into high-quality audio.
- • Contribute to one of the fastest-growing sectors in tech: the intersection of artificial intelligence and audio-based learning.
- • Deliver features that directly impact users’ lives, with daily feedback from users sharing emotional, life-changing experiences.
🎯 Requirements
- • Proficiency in Swift programming language
- • Experience with SwiftUI for building iOS user interfaces
- • Proven experience building and scaling iOS apps to a large user base
- • Strong understanding of multithreading programming in iOS
- • Experience working with CI/CD infrastructure and Fastlane for automated deployments
- • Demonstrated ability to apply SOLID principles to write clean, maintainable, and scalable code
🏖️ Benefits
- • Opportunity to help shape a fast-growing company and product with global impact
- • Competitive salary and collegiate atmosphere focused on asynchronous collaboration
- • Work on a product used by over 50 million people, directly improving lives of users with learning differences
- • Supportive, entrepreneurial culture that values risk-taking, intuition, and hustle
- • Be part of a team with engineers from Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Stanford, Stripe, Vercel, and other high-growth startups
- • Work in one of the fastest-growing sectors at the intersection of AI 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.
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