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

We're looking to hire for our Data side of our AI team at Speechify. This role is responsible for all aspects of data collection to support our model training operations. We are able to build high-quality datasets at petabyte-scale and low cost through a tight integration of infrastructure, engineering, and research work. We are looking for a skilled Software Engineer to join us.

What You’ll Do

• Be scrappy to find new sources of audio data and bring it into our ingestion pipeline
• Operate and extend the cloud infrastructure for our ingestion pipeline, currently running on GCP and managed with Terraform.
• Collaborate closely with our Scientists to shift the cost/throughput/quality frontier, delivering richer data at bigger scale and lower cost to power our next-generation models.
• Collaborate with others on the AI Team and Speechify Leadership to craft the AI Team’s dataset roadmap to power Speechify’s next-generation consumer and enterprise products.

An Ideal Candidate Should Have

• BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science or a related field.
• 5+ years of industry experience in software development.
• Proficiency with bash/Python scripting in Linux environments
• Proficiency in Docker and Infrastructure-as-Code concepts and professional experience with at least one major Cloud Provider (we use GCP)
• Experience with web crawlers, large-scale data processing workflows is a plus
• Ability to handle multiple tasks and adapt to changing priorities.
• Strong communication skills, both written and verbal.

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.

Think you’re a good fit for this job? 

Tell us more about yourself and why you're interested in the role when you apply.
And don’t forget to include links to your portfolio and LinkedIn.

Not looking but know someone who would make a great fit? 

Refer them! 

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 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

We're looking to hire for our Data side of our AI team at Speechify. This role is responsible for all aspects of data collection to support our model training operations. We are able to build high-quality datasets at petabyte-scale and low cost through a tight integration of infrastructure, engineering, and research work. We are looking for a skilled Software Engineer to join us.

What You’ll Do

• Be scrappy to find new sources of audio data and bring it into our ingestion pipeline
• Operate and extend the cloud infrastructure for our ingestion pipeline, currently running on GCP and managed with Terraform.
• Collaborate closely with our Scientists to shift the cost/throughput/quality frontier, delivering richer data at bigger scale and lower cost to power our next-generation models.
• Collaborate with others on the AI Team and Speechify Leadership to craft the AI Team’s dataset roadmap to power Speechify’s next-generation consumer and enterprise products.

An Ideal Candidate Should Have

• BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science or a related field.
• 5+ years of industry experience in software development.
• Proficiency with bash/Python scripting in Linux environments
• Proficiency in Docker and Infrastructure-as-Code concepts and professional experience with at least one major Cloud Provider (we use GCP)
• Experience with web crawlers, large-scale data processing workflows is a plus
• Ability to handle multiple tasks and adapt to changing priorities.
• Strong communication skills, both written and verbal.

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.

Compensation: The United States base salary range for this full-time position is $140,000-$200,000 + bonus + equity depending on experience

Think you’re a good fit for this job? 

Tell us more about yourself and why you're interested in the role when you apply.
And don’t forget to include links to your portfolio and LinkedIn.

Not looking but know someone who would make a great fit? 

Refer them! 

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.