Job Overview
Location
Penang, Malaysia
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 recognized with Apple’s 2025 Design Award for inclusivity.
- • Actively ship production code for the iOS app, ensuring high-quality, scalable, and performant features that serve over 50 million users.
- • Work within a dedicated product team to design, build, and refine core functionality of the iOS application.
- • Participate in product discussions to shape the roadmap, influencing direction through technical insight and user-centric thinking.
- • Maintain and enhance the existing complex app architecture while ensuring long-term maintainability and scalability.
- • Collaborate with designers and product managers to translate user needs into intuitive, delightful experiences that support learners with dyslexia, ADD, low vision, autism, concussions, and second-language learners.
- • Apply Swift and SwiftUI to build modern, responsive UI components that align with Apple’s design principles and accessibility standards.
- • Implement multithreaded programming techniques to optimize performance for audio processing and real-time text-to-speech rendering.
- • Manage CI/CD pipelines using Fastlane and integrate automated testing and deployment workflows to ensure rapid, reliable releases.
- • Adhere to SOLID principles in all codebases, writing clean, modular, and testable classes that support long-term team scalability.
- • Utilize Git with established branching and collaboration strategies to coordinate development across a fully distributed, global team.
- • Work in a fast-paced, asynchronous environment where speed, focus, and ownership are critical to delivering results.
- • Contribute to a culture of innovation by proposing and shipping ideas quickly, distinguishing between what can be released immediately and what requires deeper iteration.
- • Receive direct user feedback from individuals whose lives have been transformed by the product, including stories of emotional impact and improved learning outcomes.
- • Operate in a flat organizational structure where leadership is earned through technical excellence, consistent delivery, and strong communication.
- • Engage in a 1-week interview process focused on technical depth and product thinking, with no unnecessary bureaucracy.
🎯 Requirements
- • Proficiency in Swift programming language
- • Hands-on experience with SwiftUI
- • Proven experience with multithreaded programming
- • Experience working with CI/CD infrastructure and Fastlane
- • Strong understanding of SOLID principles and clean architecture
- • Experience with Git and modern Git workflows
🏖️ Benefits
- • Opportunity to shape a fast-growing company and product with global impact
- • Work on a product used by millions that helps people with learning differences access reading
- • Competitive salary and collegiate, asynchronous work culture
- • Support for risk-taking, intuition, and entrepreneurial hustle in a high-growth environment
- • Be part of a team building at the intersection of artificial intelligence and audio technology
- • Directly contribute to a transformative product with daily user feedback on life-changing impact
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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