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. 

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.