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.

About Upshop 

Upshop is the market leader in Total Store Operations solutions for the Grocery and C-Store markets. We offer an AI-powered SaaS platform connecting Fresh, Center, eCommerce, and DSD department operations to deliver a simplified, smarter, more connected store experience. Customers running Upshop realize significant improvements in sales, shrink, food safety, and sustainability across the entire store. 450+ retail chain accounts trust our software in over 55k+ stores across 35 countries and 3 continents. 

At Upshop, we believe great businesses are built by great people. We hire high-agency builders who take ownership, move with urgency, and raise the bar for those around them. 

Overview of the Role  

We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to operate with a high degree of autonomy within one of Upshop’s core product teams. This is a hands-on individual contributor position focused on owning and driving complex initiatives, shaping technical decisions at the project level, and delivering high-quality systems in an evolving platform environment. 

Our platform powers real-time retail operations at global scale, spanning mobile applications, barcode scanning workflows, multi-tenant SaaS APIs, enterprise integrations, and data-driven decision systems. You will work across cloud-native infrastructure in Azure and GCP, building and operating services in languages such as C# and PHP, alongside modern frontend technologies like React and TypeScript. The platform leverages a variety of frameworks, containerized deployments with Kubernetes, and data systems including SQL and NoSQL databases, Redis, and analytics pipelines. 

AI is core to how we build at Upshop. From drafting specifications to generating code, expanding test coverage, refactoring legacy modules, and improving observability, we expect engineers to actively explore and leverage AI tools throughout their workflow. Curiosity and disciplined AI usage are part of the role. 

Key Responsibilities 

Project Leadership & Technical Execution 

• Lead significant technical initiatives within your product area, driving projects from design through production rollout. 

• Break down ambiguous problems into structured, deliverable increments. 

• Collaborate with other engineers and engineering leadership to align project decisions with broader architectural direction. 

• Contribute to design discussions, propose trade-offs, and help reduce decision latency within the team. 

Hands-On Development 

• Leverage AI tools to design solutions, generate production-grade code, expand test coverage, and improve implementation quality. 

• Contribute across backend and frontend systems, ensuring clarity, maintainability, and strong engineering discipline. 

• Write comprehensive unit and integration tests covering core paths and edge cases. 

• Own features end-to-end: design, implementation, deployment, monitoring, and iteration. 

• Design with observability in mind — logging, metrics, tracing, and performance considerations built in by default. 

Platform Evolution & Collaboration 

• Support ongoing system evolution and integration across product lines. 

• Work collaboratively across team boundaries, stepping into gray areas when necessary to move work forward. 

• Mentor less experienced engineers through thoughtful code reviews and structured feedback. 

• Participate in improving engineering practices, including spec-driven development and AI-assisted workflows. 

Qualifications 

Required 

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience. 

• Demonstrated interest in and active exploration of AI tools, with experience integrating AI into daily development workflows. 

• Strong backend engineering experience in PHP, C#, or similar languages and frameworks. 

• Frontend experience with React, modern TypeScript/JavaScript ecosystems, or comparable frontend technologies. 

• Experience operating systems in cloud environments (Azure, GCP, AWS, or similar) and containerized deployments (e.g., Kubernetes or equivalent platforms). 

• Demonstrated ability to lead projects and influence technical direction without formal authority. 

• Strong written and verbal communication skills; able to document intent, specifications, and decisions clearly. 

• Experience working effectively in ambiguous environments where requirements and integration paths evolve. 

Preferred 

• Experience using or experimenting with agentic development and spec-driven development patterns. 

• Experience working in multi-tenant SaaS environments. 

• Deep familiarity with AI-assisted development tools and practical application of agentic or spec-driven engineering practices. 

• Experience integrating systems across product boundaries. 

What We Value 

• Initiative over passivity. 

• Structured thinking over reactive execution. 

• Methodical system evolution over reckless rewrites. 

• Data-informed decisions over opinion-driven debates. 

• Ownership from concept to production health. 

Benefits/Perks: 

• Competitive compensation. 

• Generous PTO and benefits package. 

• Career development opportunities. 

• Collaborative, growth-oriented culture at the forefront of grocery tech innovation.