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.

Please note: this role is Remote UK, no overseas candidates or work from overseas will be acceptable due to nature of our customer data management policies. Travel to client sites although very unlikely may occur and will be fully reimbursed by Kerv Group.

About Us

Launched in July 2020, the Kerv Group is a next-generation customer-first, cloud-first provider, created to help customers achieve successful business outcomes in a new digital era. We are undergoing an exciting period of transformation and growth following the acquisition of seven highly successful organisations, and we are now over 900 employees.

About the Role

As a result of growth in a new area of business, we are looking for an operationally focused individual to take ownership of our production and development AWS of infrastructure.

We currently host software for our own products, as well as custom software for 30+ customers across five AWS tenants and one Azure tenant. These environments support a range of applications and customers, from SMEs to large public-sector organisations, some of whom require CIS-compliant infrastructure. 

This role is the first step in creating a more mature infrastructure management capability. This role is a combination of hands-on cloud operations, security remediation, change control, automation and cost optimisation. 

Your part to play

You will help run and improve our AWS environments across production and development, with a strong focus on security, stability, compliance and cost control. 

Working with our existing security tooling, including OX Security and Wiz, you will identify and prioritise vulnerabilities, drive remediation activity, and maintain a forward plan to reduce risk and improve the security posture of our customer and internal environments. This includes owning patching and security updates across the estate, ensuring critical and high vulnerabilities are addressed within agreed timescales in line with Cyber Essentials and our customer obligations. 

You will work within our change control process, making sure infrastructure changes are properly assessed, documented, scheduled and communicated. You will also look for opportunities to automate repeatable operational tasks, improve consistency, reduce manual effort and support ongoing cost optimisation across our cloud estate. 

As part of a small team, you will work closely with engineering, service and product colleagues to keep our platforms secure, resilient and efficient. You will also support the Service Desk with escalations where needed. 

You will also: 
• Manage the day-to-day operation of AWS and Azure environments across multiple customer and internal estates. 
• Plan and deliver patching, system updates and infrastructure changes. 
• Use OX Security, Wiz and other tools to identify, triage and track vulnerabilities through to resolution. 
• Maintain a prioritised programme of work covering remediation, technical debt and broader security improvements. 
• Contribute technical input into change control, including impact assessments, implementation plans, rollback plans and scheduling. 
• Maintain and improve CIS-aligned configurations and controls where required. 
• Drive cost optimisation initiatives across AWS, including usage reviews, rightsizing and reducing waste. 
• Improve operational efficiency through automation, scripting and better tooling. 
• Support incident resolution, root cause analysis, documentation and continuous improvement. 

 All about You

You must have: 
• Hands-on experience supporting cloud infrastructure in live production environments, with strong experience in AWS and working knowledge of the other. 
• Experience of day-to-day infrastructure operations, including patching, vulnerability remediation and implementing production changes. 
• Experience working within a controlled change process in a production environment. 
• A solid understanding of cloud security fundamentals, including identity and access management, networking, platform hardening and general security best practice. 
• Experience using automation or scripting to reduce manual effort and improve operational consistency. 
• Strong organisational, troubleshooting and communication skills, with the ability to prioritise work and see actions through to completion. 
• Awareness of security and compliance requirements such as Cyber Essentials, CIS or similar good practice.

 Ideally you will also have: 
• Experience across both AWS and Azure. 
• Experience with OX Security, Wiz, or similar cloud security and posture management tooling. 
• Experience supporting multi-customer or multi-tenant environments. 
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code or configuration and deployment tooling such as Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins, PowerShell, Bash or Python. 
• Experience supporting public-sector or other regulated environments. 
• Experience identifying and delivering cloud cost optimisation initiatives. 
• Experience supporting operational escalations or working closely with a Service Desk. 
• Relevant certifications such as AWS, Azure, security or ITIL qualifications.