About the Role

You will be working as a part of a distributed agile team, building a new SaaS platform that underpins a suite of enterprise applications solving a variety of hard data analytics and enterprise problems. You will be responsible for ensuring that the framework and products we develop meet the established design, implementation, and quality goals.  

What You’ll Do

• Be a part of a globally distributed team of backend engineers to design/develop/architect Securiti’s core backend platform
• Help create architecture documents, functional specifications, design documents, and developer test plans
• Coordinate end-to-end development, deployment, and testing of new features and enhancements in the product
• Write reliable, secure, performant, and scalable code
• Perform code reviews and analysis
• Monitor platform performance and be on-call to address any urgent issues
• Work with customer support and address customer issues
• Integrate new technologies into back-end cloud infrastructure

What You’ll Bring

• Minimum 7 years of experience developing software, with some experience using container technologies like Docker
• Experience in building highly available and scalable distributed systems for the cloud
• Strong conceptual understanding of multi-threaded applications
• Professional development experience in GoLang, Java, C++, or Python
• Good knowledge of Linux and bash scripting 
• Good software development practices: should thrive in an environment of rapid development, peer code reviews, and write good functional/unit tests
• Experience with microservices and REST-based HTTP/2 architectures
• Experience with SQL (Postgres) and NoSQL (Mongo/Elasticsearch) technologies 
• Knowledge and use of performance tuning, profiling, and software metrics tools
• Very strong diagnostic and troubleshooting skills
• Proven ability to utilize creative thinking to solve complex engineering problems
• Understanding of continuous integration tools, including Jenkins
• Experience with agile development methodologies is a must
• Outstanding verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills
• High level of energy, teamwork, can-do attitude, and willingness to learn new technologies
• Working knowledge of networks and web concepts

Bonus Skills

• Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, and Azure
• Experience with Containerisation technologies (Kubernetes, Docker) 
• Experience with tools like terraform, helm, docker
• Understanding of Network Services such as Load-Balancers, Security, QoS 
• Understanding of platform level concerns, such as configuration management, network request routing, blue/green or canary deployments, in-service software upgrade 
• Experience in building API based connectors to cloud-based SaaS services is a big plus

What You’ll Get 

• Competitive compensation package
• Comprehensive health and wellness benefits
• Professional development opportunities

About the Role  

You will be working as a part of a distributed agile team, building a new SaaS platform that underpins a suite of enterprise applications  solving a variety of hard data analytics and enterprise problems.  You will be responsible for ensuring that the framework and products we develop meet the established design, implementation, and quality goals.  

What You’ll Do

• Develop and maintain a full stack SaaS application in the cloud environment
• Build, design, deploy, maintain the implementation of Cloud solutions across multiple public cloud offerings, e.g. AWS, Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure
• Participate in technology evaluation and reengineering teams to support strategy-definition and continuous process improvement activities
• Implement and refine cloud future state architectures and roadmaps including architecture standards, guidelines, and industry best practices.
• Perform ongoing performance tuning, upgrades, and resource optimization as required. Configure CPU, memory, and disk partitions as required; maintain data center environmental and monitoring equipment.
• Participate in the design, implementation and management of workload automation initiatives 

What You’ll Bring

• Software programming languages: Golang, Python experience required 

• Working knowledge of IaC (infrastructure as code) principals - Cloud formation, Terraform 

• Bachelor's Degree 

• 3+ years of software development experience required  

• 3+ years working with cloud platforms 

• Experience with Agile and DevOps concepts 

• Extensive knowledge of Linux based systems including software, networking and storage 

• Experience architecting cloud infrastructures on Amazon Web Services (AWS) for small, medium scale and enterprise level applications 

• Good knowledge of security (SAML, OAuth, OpenID, Kerberos, Policies, entitlements etc.) 

• Infrastructure deployment experience in the Public cloud 

• Knowledge of security controls for the Public cloud (encryption of data in motion/rest and key management) 
• Knowledge of Linux containers. 

What You’ll Get 

• Competitive compensation package

• Comprehensive health and wellness benefits

• Professional development opportunities

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.

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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.