The mission of Speechify is to make sure that reading is never a barrier to learning.

Over 50 million people use Speechify’s text-to-speech products to turn whatever they’re reading – PDFs, books, Google Docs, news articles, websites – into audio, so they can read faster, read more, and remember more. Speechify’s text-to-speech reading products include its iOS app, Android App, Mac App, Chrome Extension, and Web App. Google recently named Speechify the Chrome Extension of the Year and Apple named Speechify its 2025 Design Award winner for Inclusivity.  

Today, nearly 200 people around the globe work on Speechify in a 100% distributed setting – Speechify has no office. These include frontend and backend engineers, AI research scientists, and others from Amazon, Microsoft, and Google, leading PhD programs like Stanford, high growth startups like Stripe, Vercel, Bolt, and many founders of their own companies.

Overview

The responsibilities of our Platform team include building and maintaining all backend services, including, but not limited to, payments, analytics, subscriptions, new products, text to speech, and external APIs.

This is a key role and ideal for someone who thinks strategically, enjoys fast-paced environments, is passionate about making product decisions, and has experience building great user experiences that delight users.

We are a flat organization that allows anyone to become a leader by showing excellent technical skills and delivering results consistently and fast. Work ethic, solid communication skills, and obsession with winning are paramount. 

Our interview process involves several technical interviews and we aim to complete them within 1 week. 

What You’ll Do

• Design, develop, and maintain robust APIs including public TTS API, internal APIs like Payment, Subscription, Auth and Consumption Tracking, ensuring they meet business and scalability requirements
• Oversee the full backend API landscape, enhancing and optimizing for performance and maintainability
• Collaborate on B2B solutions, focusing on customization and integration needs for enterprise clients
• Work closely with cross-functional teams to align backend architecture with overall product strategy and user experience

An Ideal Candidate Should Have

• Proven experience in backend development: TS/Node (required)
• Direct experience with GCP and knowledge of AWS, Azure, or other cloud providers
• Efficiency in ideation and implementation, prioritizing tasks based on urgency and impact
• Preferred: Experience with Docker and containerized deployments
• Preferred: Proficiency in deploying high availability applications on Kubernetes

What We Offer

• A dynamic environment where your contributions shape the company and its products
• A team that values innovation, intuition, and drive
• Autonomy, fostering focus and creativity
• The opportunity to have a significant impact in a revolutionary industry
• Competitive compensation, a welcoming atmosphere, and a commitment to an exceptional asynchronous work culture
• The privilege of working on a product that changes lives, particularly for those with learning differences like dyslexia, ADD, and more
• An active role at the intersection of artificial intelligence and audio – a rapidly evolving tech domain

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Speechify is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. 

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.

The Role

This is an opportunity to join a world-leading engineering team working on the design and development of new features across Pico’s entire product range. Our Redline Trading Solutions provides ultra-low latency market data and order execution solutions that solve the toughest latency and throughput challenges in today’s equities, options, futures and foreign exchange markets. Our Corvil Analytics technology is used extensively by market participants to understand various aspects of their performance and execution, at both network and business level, in real-time and retrospectively. We are at a tremendously exciting stage with extensive, on-going innovative work and an exciting vision to fulfil

We need brilliant engineers to help bring this technology into new markets and new deployment models. If you want to work with a team of highly skilled engineers where learning and innovation are everyday activities, if you want to solve the problems encountered when normalizing and analysing the firehose of data in real time – then Pico is what you are looking for.

Requirements:

• BSc/MSc in a relevant Engineering disciple (Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Maths, Physics, etc)
• A strong proficiency in C development under Linux
• Knowledge of high-performance systems and multi-threaded application development
• Insatiable appetite for problem-solving and learning about technology
• Team player - excels in a collaborative environment while using initiative to the team’s benefit
• Extensive knowledge of computer architectures
• Focus on writing maintainable code
• Excellent customer service attitude, communication skills (written and verbal), and interpersonal skills
• Ability to ask for help, take advice, and incorporate constructive feedback
• Ability to articulate the reasoning behind decisions or trade-offs
• This role is office-based, minimum expectation is hybrid office/remote work.

Experience/Knowledge of the following is desirable:

• Knowledge of Financial trading concepts (orders, trades, quotes, etc) and protocols, including FIX.
• Automated testing (unit testing, integration testing)
• Multiple Linux-based development environments, including tools such as gdb and valgrind
• Python programming
• Java programming
• Continuous Integration (Jenkins), including the delivery of CI aligned test automation
• IP networking
• Packet capture analysis using tools such as Wireshark

Working Arrangements 

This is a Hybrid position with weekly time in the office with the flexibility of working from home. Though travel may be required from time to time, it is not expected to be regular or frequent. 

IMPORTANT DATA PRIVACY INFORMATION:

This position is available with PICO GLOBAL LTD. The controller of your personal data will be PICO GLOBAL LTD.

Given the nature of the job, the position and the nature of the employer and the services it provides, we are entitled to possibly check the candidates' criminal record, as required by law and other regulations applicable to us.

For further information on what personal data we collect, how we will process your personal data and your rights with respect to your personal data please read our Pico Job Candidate Privacy Notice, View Here.

The Role

This is an opportunity to join a world-leading engineering team working on the design and development of new features across Pico’s entire product range. Our Redline Trading Solutions provides ultra-low latency market data and order execution solutions that solve the toughest latency and throughput challenges in today’s equities, options, futures and foreign exchange markets. Our Corvil Analytics technology is used extensively by market participants to understand various aspects of their performance and execution, at both network and business level, in real-time and retrospectively. We are at a tremendously exciting stage with extensive, on-going innovative work and an exciting vision to fulfil

We need brilliant engineers to help bring this technology into new markets and new deployment models. If you want to work with a team of highly skilled engineers where learning and innovation are everyday activities, if you want to solve the problems encountered when normalizing and analysing the firehose of data in real time – then Pico is what you are looking for.

Requirements:

• BSc/MSc in a relevant Engineering disciple (Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Maths, Physics, etc)
• A strong proficiency in C development under Linux
• Knowledge of high-performance systems and multi-threaded application development
• Insatiable appetite for problem-solving and learning about technology
• Team player - excels in a collaborative environment while using initiative to the team’s benefit
• Extensive knowledge of computer architectures
• Focus on writing maintainable code
• Excellent customer service attitude, communication skills (written and verbal), and interpersonal skills
• Ability to ask for help, take advice, and incorporate constructive feedback
• Ability to articulate the reasoning behind decisions or trade-offs
• This role is office-based, minimum expectation is hybrid office/remote work.

Experience/Knowledge of the following is desirable:

• Knowledge of Financial trading concepts (orders, trades, quotes, etc) and protocols, including FIX.
• Automated testing (unit testing, integration testing)
• Multiple Linux-based development environments, including tools such as gdb and valgrind
• Python programming
• Java programming
• Continuous Integration (Jenkins), including the delivery of CI aligned test automation
• IP networking
• Packet capture analysis using tools such as Wireshark

Working Arrangements 

This is a Hybrid position with weekly time in the office with the flexibility of working from home. Though travel may be required from time to time, it is not expected to be regular or frequent. 

IMPORTANT DATA PRIVACY INFORMATION:

This position is available with PICO GLOBAL LTD. The controller of your personal data will be PICO GLOBAL LTD.

For further information on what personal data we collect, how we will process your personal data and your rights with respect to your personal data please read our Pico Job Candidate Privacy Notice, View Here.

Be a part of Pico Family

Pico is an equal opportunity employer. Pico does not discriminate on the basis of a candidate's age, race, gender, color, religion, sexual orientation, physical or mental disability, or other non-merit factors. All employment decisions at Pico are based on business needs, job requirements and qualifications. If you require any assistance or accommodations to be made for the recruitment process, please inform us when you submit your online application.

Business Insider is hiring a Cloud Engineer III to join our Cloud Engineering team dedicated to building and supporting scalable, secure and resilient infrastructure in AWS and other cloud providers.

Business Insider is for people who are driven, optimistic and always looking forward. Our mission is to inspire action through thought-provoking stories. We tell our audience what they want and need to know to improve their lives and the world with storytelling that is accessible, smart, sometimes unexpected, and always helpful. Our team members embody and uphold Business Insider’s three core values: we are all one team, we are effective, and we get better every day.

Our Cloud Engineering team is one of collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement.

The Role & Team:

As a Cloud Engineer, you will contribute to the design, implementation, and optimisation of our cloud infrastructure, playing a pivotal role in the ongoing success of our tech teams, our writers and editors and the readership of the largest business news site in the world.

You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure the effectiveness of our DevOps culture, troubleshoot application and system issues and add minimal complexity to monitor, deploy and scale our continuously growing environment.

This role reports directly to the Director of Cloud Engineering and sits on the Cloud Engineering Team. This role will be based in Belfast and offers an in office or work from home / hybrid opportunity. 

Key Responsibilities:

• Collaborate on the design and implementation of scalable and secure cloud infrastructure solutions on AWS.
• Managing and enhancing our global AWS services and infrastructure, adhering to security best practices.
• Working closely with cross-functional teams to foster an effective DevOps culture.
• Troubleshooting application and system issues in collaboration with feature team engineers, communicating status to the broader team.
• Implementing minimal complexity to monitor, deploy, and scale a continuously growing environment.

The Ideal Candidate Has:

• Demonstrable knowledge of building and supporting cloud applications at scale.
• A positive attitude and ability to contribute effectively to discussions.
• Professional experience with AWS and Elastic Kubernetes Service.
• A high degree of comfort in deploying cloud native applications using Terraform and Kubernetes and the ability to evaluate emerging technologies.
• Proficiency in coding in a modern programming language.
• Familiarity with DevOps practices and tools.

Salary & Benefits:

• Market leading salary (dependent on skills, experience, and competencies)
• Hybrid flexible working - our amazing City Centre office or your home, the choice is yours.
• 25 days annual leave + Bank Holidays
• Unrivalled culture and working environment with regular socials and company events
• Private Medical Insurance
• Health cash plan 
• Life assurance 
• Employee assistance programme
• Highly competitive family leave policies and access to our family benefits platform, Maven, offering support for employee preconception, pregnancy & postpartum.

Business Insider is committed to providing equal employment opportunities and, when making employment  decisions, does not discriminate based on race, ethnicity, gender, gender identity or expression, sex, sexual orientation, age, nationality or national origin, religion, disability, familial status, and military or veteran status. We encourage members of traditionally underrepresented groups to apply.

Business Insider is a subsidiary of Axel Springer SE, a family-owned transatlantic media company headquartered in Berlin and New York. Axel Springer is dedicated to shaping the future of journalism in the free world, believing that a free and informed society is essential to democracy. The company’s guiding principles – first articulated as The Essentials by founder Axel Springer in the aftermath of World War II – remain a cornerstone of the company’s foundation today. Learn more about Axel Springer.