Job Overview
Location
Lagos, Nigeria
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 recipient of Apple’s 2025 Design Award for inclusivity.
- • Actively ship production code for the Speechify iOS application, ensuring high-quality, scalable, and maintainable software delivery.
- • 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 stability and performance as the user base grows.
- • Build and refine 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, 100% distributed engineering environment with a flat organizational structure where leadership is earned through technical excellence and consistent delivery.
- • Drive product thinking by making thoughtful decisions about feature evolution and aligning with designers and internal teams to ensure optimal outcomes.
- • Operate with speed and focus, balancing rapid iteration with strategic prioritization in a high-growth startup setting.
- • Engage in a rigorous technical interview process designed to be completed within one week, emphasizing real-world coding and architectural problem-solving.
- • Work on a product recognized by Apple as App of the Day and by Google as Chrome Extension of the Year, serving over 50 million users globally.
- • Deliver features that directly impact users who share emotional stories of how Speechify transformed their ability to read and learn.
- • Contribute to an asynchronous, remote-first culture that values communication, work ethic, and obsession with winning.
- • Support the intersection of artificial intelligence and audio technology, advancing a product at the forefront of accessibility and productivity.
🎯 Requirements
- • Proficiency in Swift programming language
- • Experience with SwiftUI for building iOS user interfaces
- • Proven experience building and scaling iOS applications to a large user base
- • Experience with multithreaded programming in iOS
- • Experience working with CI/CD infrastructure and Fastlane for automated builds and deployments
- • Strong understanding of SOLID principles and ability to apply them to all classes in the codebase
🏖️ Benefits
- • Opportunity to help shape a fast-growing company and its product direction
- • Work on a transformative product used by millions, with direct user feedback highlighting life-changing impact
- • Competitive salary and collegiate atmosphere in a remote-first environment
- • Support for building an asynchronous culture with emphasis on autonomy and results
- • Contribute to a mission that empowers people with learning differences and gives reading superpowers to professionals worldwide
- • Work in one of the fastest-growing sectors of tech: 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.
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