About the Role 
As a Software Engineer at LHV, you’ll help build and maintain the systems that power our Retail Banking Platform. You’ll design and develop scalable backend services, work with modern cloud-native technologies, and contribute to the continuous improvement of our engineering practices. This role is ideal for someone who enjoys solving technical challenges, collaborating across teams, and writing clean, reliable code that delivers real value to customers.

Key Responsibilities: 

Software Development: 

• Design, develop, and maintain services that support LHV’s Retail Banking platform and third-party integrations.
• Write clean, efficient, and maintainable code, following best practices and team standards.
• Take ownership of mid-sized features from design through to deployment.
• Participate in code reviews, providing and receiving constructive feedback. 

Testing & Reliability: 

• Write and maintain unit and integration tests to ensure reliability of services.
• Debug and resolve issues in distributed systems.
• Contribute to improvements in automation, testing, and CI/CD pipelines. 

Collaboration & Communication: 

• Work closely with product owners, analysts, and engineers to deliver high-quality solutions.
• Contribute to technical discussions, proposing improvements in design, architecture, or processes.
• Mentor junior engineers, sharing knowledge and supporting their growth.
• Communicate progress, risks, and challenges effectively with stakeholders. 

Learning & Growth: 

• Stay up to date with modern tools, frameworks, and industry best practices.
• Build knowledge of financial services and regulated environments.
• Actively participate in team knowledge-sharing and retrospectives. 

Required Skills: 

Essential 

• Solid experience in software engineering, ideally with backend systems. 
• Proficiency in Kotlin or Java with willingness to upskill to Kotlin. 
• Confident with different types and levels of data stores, such as Cache, SQS and NoSql.  
• Familiarity with cloud environments, ideally AWS. 
• Experience with distributed systems and containerised applications (e.g., Kubernetes). 
• Understanding of DevOps practices and CI/CD pipelines. 
• Strong debugging and problem-solving skills. 
• Good communication skills and a collaborative, team-first mindset. 

Desirable 

• Experience with gRPC or other service-to-service communication frameworks. 
• Exposure to AWS services such as EventBridge, Step Functions, SQS, DynamoDB or Lambda. 
• Some experience with JavaScript/TypeScript (useful for AWS Lambdas). 
• Experience with Github Actions. 
• Background in financial services or regulated industries. 
• Interest in system scalability, resilience, and continuous improvement. 

What we’re looking for 

• Doer mindset – you like to make progress, not just plans. 

• Product-oriented – you care about building systems that solve real user problems. 

• Curious and hungry – you want to keep learning and pushing boundaries. 

• Team-first – you thrive on collaboration and shared ownership. 

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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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.