Mission

Speechify is the easiest way to listen to the world’s information. Articles on the web, documents in the cloud, books on your phone. We absorb it all and let you listen to it at your desk, on the go, at your own speed, and with tools that make learning easier, deeper, and faster.

What streaming services have done for audio entertainment, we’re doing for audio information. And whatever we’re doing seems to be working. We’re #1 in our category, and experiencing exponential growth.

Overview

We're looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our Core Experiences Team. This team builds and maintains the foundational services and SDKs that power Speechify’s product experience across platforms. It's a critical role for someone who enjoys working at the intersection of product and infrastructure, thinks strategically, and is passionate about designing clear, reliable APIs and simple systems that directly enhance the user experience.

What You’ll Do

• Collaborate with Speechify’s Product Teams to scope projects, find ways to reduce scope to get faster feedback from customers, navigate the integration/UX tradeoffs relevant to different product teams, and deliver solutions via our cross-platform SDK
• Optimize existing functionality to ship things like faster loading and more intelligent parsing by designing more efficient abstractions and improving our algorithms
• Ship cloud functions, lightweight backend services, and jobs using Kotlin

An Ideal Candidate Should Have

• Systems thinking. You know that optimizing a system requires end-to-end design, and you believe simplicity is valuable.
• Speed. You work quickly to generate ideas and options and know how to decide which things can ship now and what things need time
• Focus. We’re a high-growth startup with a busy, remote team. You know how and when to engage or be heads down
• Collaboration. You know how to inspire, play, and negotiate with opinionated designers, marketers, and PMs
• Preferred Tech Stack:
  • Kotlin Multiplatform (Java experience is OK but role is Kotlin Multiplatform) 
  • Prior experience with GCP is a plus

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.

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Tell us more about yourself and why you're interested in the role when you apply.
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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 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

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.

Job Description

Astera labs is seeking a skilled and motivated Data Scientist. This individual will play a pivotal role in identifying key data points for collection, developing strategies to accumulate data and deriving actionable insights an anomaly based on a solid foundation of relevant know-how. Also, will also be responsible for creating, testing, and deploying scripts and methods for data collection and analysis to support decision-making. The Engineer will collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify critical data sources to determine the most effective data collection strategies, will develop automated and scalable data collection pipelines, will ensure data quality, integrity, and consistency across all sources and may use AI techniques to refine the results toward failures predictions.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Data Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field.
• Advanced degrees in data science or Machine learning / AI - Advance.
• Proficiency in programming languages such as Python, R, or MATLAB.
• Strong understanding of data manipulation and analysis tools (e.g., Pandas, NumPy, SQL).
• Understanding of high speed interfaces such as Ethernet, PCI-E , WiFi.
• Experience with data visualization tools such as Tableau, Matplotlib, Graphana.
• Strong analytical and critical-thinking skills to identify patterns and outliers.
• Customer-obsession, Think and act with the customer in mind!
• Goal-driven, Self-motivated, be able to work independently and with teams with people around the globe.
• Entrepreneurial, open-minded behavior and can-do attitude.

Required Experience

• Experience with data manipulation and analysis tools (e.g., Pandas, NumPy, SQL).
• Machine learning and AI techniques and frameworks (e.g., TensorFlow, Scikit-learn).
• Proven ability to manage multiple tasks and meet deadlines.

Preferred Experience

• Embedded Firmware development with C-language, scripting with Python or other equivalent programming languages.
• Master’s degree in a relevant field.
• Experience with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP) for data storage and processing.
• Familiarity with big data technologies (e.g., Hadoop, Spark).
• Knowledge of engineering design tools and processes.

We’re looking for an IoT Embedded Linux engineer to design, build, and own the software stack that powers our edge devices in the field. You’ll craft resilient Linux-based systems (from bootloader to application), ensure secure and reliable connectivity to the cloud, and work closely with hardware, manufacturing, and backend teams to deliver production-ready devices at scale.

A Day In Your Life 

• Own the embedded Linux platform: BSP, kernel configuration, device tree, bootloaders (e.g., U-Boot), systemd services, and startup/upgrade flows.
• Develop user-space applications using object-oriented principles (C++/Go/Rust/Similar) to implement core device logic and features, leveraging available libraries and frameworks.
• Build production images using Yocto or Buildroot, manage layers/recipes, and maintain reproducible builds for multiple hardware variants.
• Implement secure OTA updates (e.g., Mender, RAUC, SWUpdate), with A/B partitions, rollback, and signing—targeting zero‑touch fleet upgrades.
• Harden devices for security: filesystem permissions, sandboxing (e.g., AppArmor/SELinux), secure boot/TPM, key management, CVE tracking, and update policies.
• Deliver robust connectivity: Ethernet/Wi‑Fi/Cellular (LTE), BLE gateway roles, MQTT/HTTPS, VPN/WireGuard; optimize reliability, roaming, and reconnection logic.
• Instrument and debug in the field: journald, core dumps, remote shell, metrics/health checks; trace with strace/perf/tcpdump and diagnose with Wireshark.
• Collaborate across disciplines: work with HW, manufacturing, QA, backend, and product to define requirements, provisioning flows, and factory test automation.
• Raise the bar on quality: CI/CD for cross‑compilation, unit/integration tests, static analysis, reproducible builds, and fleet-safe release practices.

What you bring

• 3–5 years of Embedded Linux experience shipping devices to production at scale.

• Strong proficiency in object-oriented programming (OOP) principles and multi-threading experience, with hands-on skills in C/C++/GO/Rust/Similar in user space (some kernel familiarity) and scripting (Bash, Python); expertise with build systems (CMake/Make, BitBake).
• Hands-on with Buildroot or Yocto Project (preferably Buildroot), including custom layers, recipes, and SDKs.
• Solid understanding of Linux kernel basics, device trees, drivers/BSP integration, bootloaders (U‑Boot), and systemd service design.
• Networking fundamentals: TCP/IP, DHCP/DNS, TLS, MQTT/HTTPS, VPN; experience with Wi‑Fi/cellular modules and AT command stacks is a plus.
• Proven experience with OTA frameworks, partitioning strategies, and rollback-safe update flows.
• Git fluency and experience with CI (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI or similar) for cross builds and test automation.
• BSc in EE/CE/CS (or equivalent practical experience).

Nice to have

• Device security: secure boot, TPM, disk encryption, SBOM/CVE remediation workflows.
• Real-time and performance: PREEMPT_RT, scheduling, latency tuning, power management.
• Edge packaging: containers (Docker/Podman) on ARM, OCI/CRUN, rootless strategies.
• Cloud & IoT: AWS IoT/Azure IoT, device identity/provisioning, fleet management tooling.
• Language breadth: Go or Rust for system services; protobuf/gRPC.
• Manufacturing flows: factory provisioning, E2E traceability, and end-of-line testing.

Perks

• Stock options
• Paid parental leave
• Flex PTO