Job Title: Senior Backend Engineer 
Employment Status: Full-time
Location: Vienna, Austria - Hybrid (preferred) or Remote - EU
Compensation: competitive compensation + performance-based bonus and equity options.
Final compensation is negotiable based on experience and qualifications.
Benefits: free in-office: lunch, drinks, coffee, snacks, Wiener Linien ticket, a yearly company retreat, regular team events

Job Summary

At Ketryx, we’re on a mission to help medical software teams build secure, reliable applications that make a real difference in people’s lives. We give them the tools to automate the tough parts of compliance and quality so they can focus on what matters most: creating life-saving products with confidence.

We're looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to join our team. In this role, you’ll work on the backend of our platform, helping medical device companies get their products to market faster. You’ll take ownership of features from start to finish, designing the architecture, writing the code, and seeing everything through to production. Your work will have a direct impact on the future of healthcare technology.

This is a hybrid role in Vienna, with a minimum of three days per week spent on-site. We’re open to remote work for exceptional candidates.

About You

You’re passionate about software and making a real impact. You’re curious, enjoy solving tough problems, and love the idea of working in a fast-moving environment where you can take initiative. You’re comfortable collaborating in English with team members from different areas, and you take pride in owning projects from beginning to end. Above all, you’re excited about using technology to improve patient outcomes.

What You’ll Own & Contribute To

Database Design

Design and evolve PostgreSQL schemas, write efficient queries, apply indexing strategies, and help ensure the database remains performant and maintainable as the product grows.

Backend Development

Build new integrations between the Ketryx platform and other systems, APIs, and workflows. Contribute to improving latency, throughput, and fault tolerance across the backend stack.

Maintainable Systems

Write clean, well-tested code and contribute to standards around migrations, documentation, and testing. Help ensure the system remains easy to understand, debug, and extend.

Operational Reliability

Participate in monitoring, debugging, and incident response. Help identify performance bottlenecks and reliability issues, and contribute fixes and improvements.

Collaboration

Work closely with Product, Client Operations, Compliance, Security, and other engineers to deliver features that meet both business and regulatory requirements and resolve any technical challenges that come up

What We’re Looking For

• 5+ years of experience working as a software engineer, with strong experience in backend development
• Solid skills in TypeScript
• Strong experience with PostgreSQL: schema design, query optimization, indexing, and performance tuning
• Solid understanding of backend performance and maintainability, including refactoring and technical debt management
• Comfortable collaborating across teams and participating in technical discussions and design reviews
• Comfortable working in English and collaborating across teams

Bonus Points

• Experience with Prisma and Next.js
• Experience with GraphQL (urql or Apollo)
• Familiarity with AWS services like S3, RDS, and Elastic Beanstalk
• Familiarity with Docker and Kubernetes in production or near-production environments.
• Strong habits around testing (Jest, Cucumber, Playwright)
• Experience working in regulated industries like healthcare or finance
• Experience with Kotlin and Spring
• An interest in mentoring and helping others grow

Our Tech Stack

Frontend: TypeScript, React, Next.js, Tailwind, JollyUI
Backend: PostgreSQL, Redis, GraphQL (urql), Prisma
Testing: Jest, Cucumber, Playwright
Infrastructure: AWS (e.g. S3, RDS, Elastic Beanstalk), Sentry
Collaboration: Slack, GitHub, Figma, Jira, Confluence

Compensation

At Ketryx, we offer a competitive and transparent compensation package that reflects your experience and skills:

For candidates in Austria with 3–5 years of experience, the gross annual salary starts at €70,000+.

For candidates in Austria with more than 5 years of experience, the gross annual salary starts at €90,000+.

We offer all-in contracts, with final compensation tailored to your qualifications and experience. In addition to the base salary, our package includes a performance-based bonus and stock options, aligning your success with the company’s growth. For remote candidates, salary may be adjusted slightly based on location.

Mission

Speechify is the easiest way to listen to the world’s information. Articles on the web, documents in the cloud, books on your phone. We absorb it all and let you listen to it at your desk, on the go, at your own speed, and with tools that make learning easier, deeper, and faster.

What streaming services have done for audio entertainment, we’re doing for audio information. And whatever we’re doing seems to be working. We’re #1 in our category, and experiencing exponential growth.

Overview

We're looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our Core Experiences Team. This team builds and maintains the foundational services and SDKs that power Speechify’s product experience across platforms. It's a critical role for someone who enjoys working at the intersection of product and infrastructure, thinks strategically, and is passionate about designing clear, reliable APIs and simple systems that directly enhance the user experience.

What You’ll Do

• Collaborate with Speechify’s Product Teams to scope projects, find ways to reduce scope to get faster feedback from customers, navigate the integration/UX tradeoffs relevant to different product teams, and deliver solutions via our cross-platform SDK
• Optimize existing functionality to ship things like faster loading and more intelligent parsing by designing more efficient abstractions and improving our algorithms
• Ship cloud functions, lightweight backend services, and jobs using Kotlin

An Ideal Candidate Should Have

• Systems thinking. You know that optimizing a system requires end-to-end design, and you believe simplicity is valuable.
• Speed. You work quickly to generate ideas and options and know how to decide which things can ship now and what things need time
• Focus. We’re a high-growth startup with a busy, remote team. You know how and when to engage or be heads down
• Collaboration. You know how to inspire, play, and negotiate with opinionated designers, marketers, and PMs
• Preferred Tech Stack:
  • Kotlin Multiplatform (Java experience is OK but role is Kotlin Multiplatform) 
  • Prior experience with GCP is a plus

What We Offer

• A fast-growing environment where you can help shape the company and product.
• An entrepreneurial-minded team that supports risk, intuition, and hustle.
• A hands-off management approach so you can focus and do your best work.
• An opportunity to make a big impact in a transformative industry.
• Competitive salaries, a friendly and laid-back atmosphere, and a commitment to building a great asynchronous culture.
• Opportunity to work on a life-changing product that millions of people use.
• Build products that directly impact and support people with learning differences like dyslexia, ADD, low vision, concussions, autism, and more.
• Work in one of the fastest growing sectors of tech, the intersection of artificial intelligence and audio.

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Speechify does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status.