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.

The Basics:

At Tanium, our Enterprise Services Engineers (ESEs) fulfill a vital role in our organization by serving Tanium's customers as hands-on-keyboard experts for both remote and on-site engagements. You will operate in a highly team-based environment with Technical Support Engineers, fellow Engineers, Customer Success Managers, and Sales Account Managers. ESEs contribute to each customer's success by operating and maintaining the Tanium platform and its modules to achieve customer-specific Operations, Risk, Compliance, Asset, and Security-focused outcomes, either remotely or on on-site with the customer. You’ll have continuous opportunities and challenges which will require you to apply your best technical chops in large enterprise environments, all leveraging the power of Tanium. 

What You’ll Do:

• Work closely with our customers to;
  • Operationalize, administer and maintain the Tanium Platform to solve complex technical issues independently or with the help of teammates 
  • Identify opportunities for our customers to get greater value from the Tanium platform 
  • Consistently and cogently address our customers’ needs through astute verbal and written communication skills 
• Identify and rapidly assign tier 3 support cases to Technical Support Engineers
• Conduct daily health-checks on assigned accounts & Work with Technical Support Engineers on strategic customer activities
  • Contribute to and track activity, after action, root cause and daily status reports
  • Document best practices and Play Book entries
  • Work closely with CSMs on improving Tanium operational status within key accounts
  • Provide technical direction to customer IT support staff

We’re Looking For:

• Education
  • BA/BS or equivalent experience required
• Experience
  • 5+ years of experience in IT/Consulting
  • 5+ years of experience in Systems Administration/Engineering
  • Active TS/SCI Clearance or higher
  • Hands-on Tanium experience a major plus
  • Strong troubleshooting skills
  • Ability to articulate and communicate
  • Broad knowledge across several technical domains, coupled with deep knowledge in one or more of the following:
    • Endpoint Security
    • Endpoint Support/Troubleshooting
    • Incident Response/Vulnerability Management
    • Systems Management
    • Systems Administration
    • Software Engineering
    • Utility Scripting (e.g. Bash, PowerShell, VBScript, Python, etc.)
  • Demonstrated critical thinking skills
  • Ability to break a problem down into manageable, ordered piece parts
  • Ability to convey problem statement and plan of attack to others

About Tanium 

On a mission. Together. 

At Tanium, we are stewards of a culture that emphasizes the importance of collaboration, respect, and diversity. In our pursuit of revolutionizing the way some of the largest enterprises and governments in the world solve their most difficult IT challenges, we are strengthened by our unique perspectives and by our collective actions.   

As a global organization with stakeholders around the world, it’s imperative that the diversity of our customers and communities is reflected internally in our team members. We strive to create a diverse and inclusive environment where everyone feels they have opportunities to succeed and grow because we know that only together can we do great things.  

Our commitment to excellence and innovation has earned us a place on the Forbes Cloud 100 list for ten consecutive years, and we continue to be recognized worldwide as a great place to work. 

Taking care of our team members 

Each of our team members has 5 days set aside as volunteer time off (VTO) to contribute to the communities they live in and give back to the causes they care about most.   

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