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.

What You will do (Responsibilities) :

• Build, test, and deploy AI agents across Finance, Credit, Procurement, and Operations.
• Convert business workflows into production-grade models and automated pipelines.
• Integrate LLMs with internal systems and data sources.
• Work with Product and Engineering to deliver measurable efficiency gains, accuracy improvements, and adoption.
• Maintain model quality, observability, and versioning.
• Ensure compliance with PDPL and internal security standards.

Who You are (Qualifications) : 

* Strong Python
* Experience with LLMs and vector stores
* Experience with model evaluation, fine-tuning, and prompt engineering
* Building and deploying AI services on cloud platforms
* Strong data skills
* Knowledge of workflow automation
* API design and integration
* Understanding of security, PDPL, and responsible AI handling
* Python, FastAPI, LangChain, Vertex AI or OpenAI APIs, Pinecone or equivalent vector DB, PostgreSQL, GitHub, Docker, Terraform, n8n or similar workflow tools, basic GCP or AWS services for deployment and monitoring

What we offer:

• Great opportunity to be part of a start-up with a lot of responsibility and independence early on and where you will have an impact on the entire business
• Attractive compensation package
• Access to tools helping with your learning and development
• Product first mindset
• The best idea wins; we are all ears when it comes to ways to do things better
• Exciting stock options 

What You will do (Responsibilities) :

• Lead end-to-end ML development across BRKZ. Build and deploy production models, LLM agents, and data-driven workflows that improve accuracy and cut manual work across Finance, Credit, Procurement, and Operations.
• Scope problems with Product and Ops, size impact, and turn workflows into measurable gains.
• Cover full-stack ML engineering and applied data science: data analysis, feature engineering, modelling, evaluation, and monitoring.
• Own model lifecycle, reliability, and PDPL compliance. 
• Guide standards for data quality and ML practices. Mentor ML and AI engineers.

Who You are (Qualifications) : 

* Expert Python and ML engineering.

* 5 to 8 years in ML engineering or applied AI with delivery in production environments
* Strong with LLMs, embeddings, RAG, and classical ML models.
* Skilled in data analysis, feature engineering, and evaluation.
* Experience building and scaling pipelines.
* Strong cloud deployment background.
* Able to quantify business impact and guide decisions.
* Strong communication and mentoring ability.
* Python, FastAPI, LangChain, Vertex AI or OpenAI APIs, TensorFlow or PyTorch, Scikit-learn, Pinecone or equivalent vector DB, Airflow or Prefect, GitHub, Docker, Terraform, PostgreSQL, BigQuery, n8n or similar workflow tools.

What we offer:

• Great opportunity to be part of a start-up with a lot of responsibility and independence early on and where you will have an impact on the entire business
• Attractive compensation package
• Access to tools helping with your learning and development
• Product first mindset
• The best idea wins; we are all ears when it comes to ways to do things better
• Exciting stock options