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.

Who we are

Moniepoint is an all-in-one financial services platform for emerging markets and the second-fastest growing company in Africa.
Since 2019, Moniepoint’s technology has powered over 3 million people, offering personal and business banking, payment, credit and business management tools to help them succeed. Moniepoint processed $182 billion in 2023, and currently processes the majority of the POS transactions in Nigeria. 

Curious about what makes Moniepoint an incredible place to work? Check out posts on how we cultivate a culture of innovation, teamwork, and growth.

Job Summary
We are seeking an SRE Team Lead to guide a squad of site reliability engineers responsible for the reliability of our highly distributed financial platform.You will be designing high-level reliability architecture, while also mentoring engineers, defining the technical roadmap, and driving the culture of Site Reliability Engineering within a team. You will balance strategic leadership with deep technical work to ensure our systems and our people can scale linearly with our hyper-growth.

Responsibilities

• Set the technical direction for the SRE team. Architect self-healing systems, define reliability standards (Production Readiness Reviews), and drive the adoption of observability as Code and automation best practices.
  
  
• Define and enforce the end-to-end standard for system visibility. You will guide teams to deeply instrument their code (logging, tracing, metrics) and govern the monitoring ecosystem to ensure alerts are actionable, strictly minimizing noise (alert fatigue) while maximizing our ability to detect and resolve issues proactively.
  
  
• Lead, mentor, and grow a team of Senior and Associate SREs. Conduct code reviews, facilitate technical workshops and foster a culture of engineering excellence.
  
  
• Act as the ultimate escalation point for major incidents. Beyond firefighting, you will refine the Incident management process, ensuring the process is efficient and that RCAs lead to actionable engineering fixes.
  
  
•  Partner with Engineering Managers and Product Leads to define Service Level Objectives (SLOs) that align with business goals. 

Requirements

• Minimum of 5 years of experience in SRE or Backend Engineering, with at least 2 years in a Lead or Senior/Staff role mentoring others.
  
  
• Expert-level proficiency in Java, Go, Rust, or Python. You set the standard for code quality within the team.
  
  
• Mastery of distributed systems patterns. You can design scalable architectures, debug complex microservices interactions, and explain architectural trade-offs to stakeholders.
  
  
• Deep expertise with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) or AWS.  You have extensive experience running Kubernetes (GKE) at scale and troubleshooting deep infrastructure issues.
  
  
• Proven experience defining observability strategies for large teams. You have deep expertise in architecting the complete telemetry stack: from custom instrumentation to monitoring and actionable alerting.
  
  
• Strong communication skills with the ability to de-escalate high-pressure war rooms with calm authority.

What we can offer you

• Culture - We put our people first and prioritize the well-being of every team member. We’ve built a company where all opinions carry weight and where all voices are heard. We value and respect each other and always look out for one another. Above all, we are human.
• Learning - We have a learning and development-focused environment with an emphasis on knowledge sharing, training, and regular internal technical talks.
• Compensation - You’ll receive an attractive salary, pension, health insurance, annual bonus, plus other benefits.

What to expect in the hiring process

• A preliminary phone call with the recruiter
• A technical interview with the Hiring Manager
• A behavioural and technical interview with a member of the Executive team. 

Moniepoint is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees and candidates.