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 Data Science group serves under the Black Duck Data Engineering organization as a center of excellence in data analysis, statistical interpretation, machine learning engineering, attribution analysis and operational metric review.

Our core purview is the application of historical data to drive future decision making, and to develop and maintain machine learning and analytical tools to improve service delivery and advise operational processes.

We also serve as mediators of meaning across Black Duck, and as custodians of a shared data ecosystem.

This ecosystem serves to empower data consumers to explore client-operational and service-ops data in more intuitive ways, and supports their ability to share and collaborate on best practices for using this data in truthful, responsible, ethical and efficient ways.

Our Values

• Trust: Our work has no value if it is not trusted by our colleagues/customers, or if our work is not respectable. We will always rather be late than incorrect.
• Collaboration: We have a “very specific set of skills”, however we should humbly respect the subject matter experts we work with in their fields of expertise; we’re experts shuffling bits around faster/better/smarter, but they do the real work.
• Results: For our work to have value, it must speed up, augment, or replace, a current decision making process, or to demonstrate a new product/operational opportunity. While the “value” of a result may not be known for a long time, we are still outcome-driven.
• Curiosity: Exploration and Experimentation is at the heart of what we do, and we empower each other with the freedom to explore, and possibly get lost in, longer term research projects than other groups. However, even those dead ends have value when they’re written up. (It’s not science unless you write it down)
• Fun: We’re in this business because we enjoy the strange and often incongruous world of data, and what that data can tell us about ourselves. Revel in the comedy of your mistakes and discoveries, and share them with abandon.

About the Role

As a Data Engineer/Scientist, you will be a custodian of our cross-functional data regime, and a driver of innovative uses of Data across our cybersecurity platforms, ranging from predictive analytics and customer behavioural analysis, through to training customised machine learning

models on continuously evolving feedback streams from data and decisions that really matter to our thousands of customers that rely on our security assessments for safety, stability, and often, sleep.

The ideal candidate is a self-starter who is enthusiastic about exploring new technologies. They also enjoy helping their peers and their organization remain at the forefront of our industry by identifying and helping implement the latest industry best-practices that boost our organization’s productivity and team members’ experience.

The role is primarily based around our Belfast R&D Site, but UK/EMEA remote or hybrid applicants will be considered. At least Quarterly travel to the Belfast R&D Site is expected, and additional travel / conference opportunities may be available depending on your impact and collaboration.

Key Responsibilities:

• Developing and maintaining analytical data pipelines from a range of sources, internal and external
• Participate in system design discussions and contribute to architectural decisions.
• Evaluating new analytical / technological opportunities for leveraging those data for security/business impact
• Leading projects from research through to production deployment and operational handover to appropriate teams
• Partnering with R&D and Engineering teams to develop and share best practices for data tooling, from pipelines and dashboards to ML and LLM integration

Key Qualifications:

• 5+ years of experience working in Data Science, AI/Data Engineering, Data Operations, DevOps, Business Analytics, or a related field
• BSc Or MSc in Computer Science, Data Science, Artificial Intelligence, Math, Physics, Engineering or related field/degree
• Experience in a relevant analytical programming language the point where you can build / deliver a project/module from scratch that can be used by others (Python is our main daily-driver, expert-level experience in Julia or Rlang could be accepted
•  Experience in Jupyter Notebook / equivalents
• Experience in Airflow, DBT, Databricks, or equivalent stacks
• Experience in the PyData / Spark or equivalent analytical stacks
• Familiarity with Cybersecurity Governance, Application Security Testing, Quality Assurance or similar
• Experience in data modelling and working with RDBMS (PostgreSQL, Oracle or MySQL) and knowledge of NoSQL databases (e.g. MongoDB)
• Experience with Machine Learning and AI systems
• Hands-on experience with AI-assisted development tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, Cursor, or similar)
• Independent project operation and cross-functional collaboration
• Strong or Developing communication skills (in-person and remote)

Nice to have:

• Familiarity with Data Mesh/Data Product concepts
• Experience in operating in Linux Command line environments
• Experience in Langchain or equivalent Agentic development stack
• Experience in training custom Machine Learning models, including familiarity with evaluation criteria and metric design
• Experience in integrating AI capabilities into software systems, including prompt engineering, API integration, and leveraging LLM-based services for automation and productivity
• Experience in Enterprise Data Visualisation such as Power BI, Tableau, Grafana, DataBricks, Snowflake etc.
• Experience deploying ML/AI models in production environments/workloads
• Experience in developing/working within large enterprise applications using microservices architecture, and container orchestration technologies, running on Kubernetes and/or cloud technologies (AWS, Azure or GCP)
• Experience in software architecture, systems design, interaction design (to the point where you can have constructive conversations with security / architecture leaders)

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.

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