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 Design award winner for inclusivity for 2025.

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

With the growth of our Android app, being the most used text-to-speech app in the Play Store, we find the need for a Senior Android Engineer to help us support the new user base as well as work on new and exciting projects to push us forward.   

This is a key role and ideal for someone who thinks strategically, enjoys fast-paced environments, 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

• Owning major features and working closely with our design team - take ownership of features inside the app and become responsible of delivering high quality features
• Shape the future of our Android team
• Own, maintain and improve reliability metrics for key features
• Participate in discussions across different teams - Product, Design, Engineering
• Review pull requests, and support other teammates
• Handle critical issues or cope with unexpected challenges 
• Take ownership of feature releases and provide nightly builds for the QA team

An Ideal Candidate Should Have

• 5+ years of software engineering experience
• Familiarity with Android components
• Experience building or contributing to at least one Android app
• Product design intuition and user empathy
• Drive to push the boundaries of Android UI/UX
• Understanding of the importance of tests and how to approach writing tests
• Self-drive to improve the app and codebase above and beyond what's outlined in the spec
• Rock solid experience with Kotlin, Kotlin Coroutines, Kotlin Flow, Dagger 2, MVVM, Clean Architecture, Background Services, Music Player Service, Android Animations, Jetpack Navigation, JUnit tests
• Excellent communication skills
• User oriented problem solving approach
• Driven with continuous feedback from leaders

Bonus:

• Experience building, maintaining, or otherwise contributing to open source projects in Android
• Experience with iOS, Web or NodeJS

Technologies we use:

• Kotlin
• Kotlin Coroutines
• Kotlin Flow
• Jetpack Navigation
• Dagger 2
• Room
• Custom Views, Canvas & Paint
• Jetpack Compose
• JUnit

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.

The United States Based Salary range for this role is: 140,000-200,000 USD/Year + Bonus + Stock depending on experience

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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.

BASE SALARY: $150,000 to $190,000 per year, paid semi-monthly

MUST HAVE:

• 5+ years of experience in data engineering within fast-paced, cloud-native environments
• Deep expertise in Python, SQL, Docker, and AWS (S3, Glue, Kinesis, Athena/Presto)
• Experience building and managing scalable ETL pipelines and data lake infrastructure
• Familiarity with distributed systems, Spark, and data quality best practices
• Strong cross-functional collaboration skills to support BI, analytics, and engineering teams

EXPERIENCE: 5+ years of data engineering experience in an AWS-based environment where data powers decision-making across product, marketing, and operations.

YOUR ROLE

Lead scalable data engineering efforts that empower cross-functional teams with reliable, timely, and actionable data, ensuring Launch Potato’s analytics and business intelligence infrastructure fuels strategic growth.

OUTCOMES

• Build and optimize scalable, efficient ETL and data lake processes that proactively catch issues before they impact the business
• Own the ingestion, modeling, and transformation of structured and unstructured data to support reporting and analysis across all business units
• Partner closely with BI and Analytics to deliver clean, query-ready datasets that improve user acquisition, engagement, and revenue growth
• Maintain and enhance database monitoring, anomaly detection, and quality assurance workflows
• Serve as the internal point of contact for reporting infrastructure—delivering ad hoc data analyses and driving consistent data integrity
• Drive adoption and advancement of Looker dashboards by ensuring robust and scalable backend data support
• Contribute to the future of Launch Potato’s data team by mentoring peers and shaping a high-performance, quality-first engineering culture

COMPETENCIES

• Data Engineering Mastery: Demonstrates technical excellence in building data pipelines, troubleshooting distributed systems, and scaling infrastructure using AWS and open-source tools
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Communicates clearly across technical and non-technical teams, translating business needs into robust data solutions
• Proactive Ownership: Operates with a strong sense of accountability; identifies and solves data issues independently and efficiently
• Quality-Driven Execution: Holds a high bar for data accuracy, auditability, and documentation throughout all systems and workflows
• Strategic Thinking: Anticipates how data infrastructure impacts wider company OKRs and proactively suggests improvements and innovations
• Growth Mindset: Seeks out opportunities to elevate team capabilities, mentor others, and stay ahead of evolving best practices in data engineering

TOTAL COMPENSATION

Base salary is set according to market rates for the nearest major metro and varies based on Launch Potato’s Levels Framework. Your compensation package includes a base salary, profit-sharing bonus, and competitive benefits. Launch Potato is a performance-driven company, which means once you are hired, future increases will be based on company and personal performance, not annual cost of living adjustments.

BASE SALARY: $150,000 to $190,000 per year, paid semi-monthly

MUST HAVE:

• 5+ years of experience in data engineering within fast-paced, cloud-native environments
• Deep expertise in Python, SQL, Docker, and AWS (S3, Glue, Kinesis, Athena/Presto)
• Experience building and managing scalable ETL pipelines and data lake infrastructure
• Familiarity with distributed systems, Spark, and data quality best practices
• Strong cross-functional collaboration skills to support BI, analytics, and engineering teams

EXPERIENCE: 5+ years of data engineering experience in an AWS-based environment where data powers decision-making across product, marketing, and operations.

YOUR ROLE

Lead scalable data engineering efforts that empower cross-functional teams with reliable, timely, and actionable data, ensuring Launch Potato’s analytics and business intelligence infrastructure fuels strategic growth.

OUTCOMES

• Build and optimize scalable, efficient ETL and data lake processes that proactively catch issues before they impact the business
• Own the ingestion, modeling, and transformation of structured and unstructured data to support reporting and analysis across all business units
• Partner closely with BI and Analytics to deliver clean, query-ready datasets that improve user acquisition, engagement, and revenue growth
• Maintain and enhance database monitoring, anomaly detection, and quality assurance workflows
• Serve as the internal point of contact for reporting infrastructure—delivering ad hoc data analyses and driving consistent data integrity
• Drive adoption and advancement of Looker dashboards by ensuring robust and scalable backend data support
• Contribute to the future of Launch Potato’s data team by mentoring peers and shaping a high-performance, quality-first engineering culture

COMPETENCIES

• Data Engineering Mastery: Demonstrates technical excellence in building data pipelines, troubleshooting distributed systems, and scaling infrastructure using AWS and open-source tools
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Communicates clearly across technical and non-technical teams, translating business needs into robust data solutions
• Proactive Ownership: Operates with a strong sense of accountability; identifies and solves data issues independently and efficiently
• Quality-Driven Execution: Holds a high bar for data accuracy, auditability, and documentation throughout all systems and workflows
• Strategic Thinking: Anticipates how data infrastructure impacts wider company OKRs and proactively suggests improvements and innovations
• Growth Mindset: Seeks out opportunities to elevate team capabilities, mentor others, and stay ahead of evolving best practices in data engineering

TOTAL COMPENSATION

Base salary is set according to market rates for the nearest major metro and varies based on Launch Potato’s Levels Framework. Your compensation package includes a base salary, profit-sharing bonus, and competitive benefits. Launch Potato is a performance-driven company, which means once you are hired, future increases will be based on company and personal performance, not annual cost of living adjustments.

Position Summary

A rapidly growing company is seeking a detail-oriented and highly skilled Mid-Level QA Engineer to join the team. This role plays a crucial part in ensuring software and hardware quality, verifying feature implementations, and maintaining stability throughout the development lifecycle.

The QA Engineer will work closely with the development and product teams to define test plans and test cases based on requirements documents or user stories, execute structured test plans, test new features, and validate bug fixes. The successful candidate will be responsible for maintaining test coverage across web and mobile applications, identifying defects, and ensuring products meet high-quality standards before release.

This role is specifically focused on bridging quality on in-house charging station production to ensure both hardware and software meet the company’s quality standards. The QA Engineer will work closely with charging station developers, mechanical engineers, and software engineers to ensure that charging stations are thoroughly tested with an emphasis on quality across the product stack.

In addition to traditional QA responsibilities, this role includes hands-on validation of charging station hardware and real-world system behavior. The ideal candidate will be comfortable working with physical devices, executing real charging scenarios, and validating how software, firmware, and hardware interact under real operating conditions.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and maintain test plans and test cases based on product requirements and system behavior.
• Perform testing across integrated systems (device + backend + application), ensuring correct behavior across system interactions.
• Execute and validate end-to-end charging workflows, including real-world scenarios with vehicle charging sessions.
• Verify system behavior under varying conditions (e.g., multiple vehicles, load distribution, prioritization, and state transitions).
• Validate charging performance, including charge rates and power delivery against expected system behavior.
• Test system behavior under edge conditions (e.g., network interruptions, restarts, partial failures).
• Debug issues across hardware, firmware, backend, and application layers by analyzing logs and observed system behavior.
• Identify, document, and reproduce defects across testing, staging, and production environments.
• Collaborate with engineering, product, and hardware teams to ensure quality across the full system.

Years of Experience

• 3–5 years of experience in QA or testing roles, with a preference for candidates who have demonstrated strong problem-solving ability, ownership, and the ability to ramp quickly in complex, integrated system environments.

Hard Requirements

Technical Skillset

• Strong proficiency in manual testing techniques across software and integrated systems (black box and grey box), including the ability to validate behavior beyond individual features.
• Experience testing or validating integrated systems (device + backend + application), with an understanding of how components interact in real-world scenarios.
• Experience with test case management tools (e.g., TestRail) and ability to design, organize, and maintain effective test coverage.
• Familiarity with project management tools (e.g., JIRA) and working within Agile development environments.
• Experience with API testing tools (e.g., Postman), including validating request/response flows and system integrations.
• Basic knowledge of SQL for data validation and verifying system behavior across backend services.
• Strong working knowledge of UNIX/Linux environments, including the ability to test, observe, and troubleshoot directly on charging station devices.
• Familiarity with Git and command-line tools for navigating codebases, logs, and system environments.
• Ability to interpret and correlate device logs, backend logs, and system outputs to diagnose issues across multiple system layers.
• Strong troubleshooting skills, with the ability to investigate issues across hardware, firmware, and software boundaries.

Core Expertise

• Comprehensive Testing Skills — Strong expertise in manual testing across web, mobile, and integrated systems, with a solid understanding of black box and grey box techniques.
• System & Integration Validation — Ability to validate end-to-end workflows and system behavior across multiple components, including real-world scenarios involving hardware and backend interactions.
• Debugging & Diagnostic Skills — Proficiency in using developer tools, logs, and system data to troubleshoot issues across device, backend, and application layers.
• Technical Proficiency — Strong understanding of REST APIs, SQL for data validation, and basic web technologies. Ability to validate system integrations and ensure data integrity.
• Cross-Platform & Real-World Testing — Experience testing across platforms (web, mobile, and devices), with the ability to identify platform-specific issues and validate behavior under varying system conditions.
• Agile & Cross-Functional Collaboration — Experience working in Agile environments and collaborating effectively with software, firmware, and hardware teams.
• Communication & Documentation — Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to clearly document defects, test results, and system behavior.

Bonus Skills (Preferred, but not Required)

• Strong understanding of version control systems (e.g., Git) and command-line interfaces.
• Experience with automated testing tools (e.g., Playwright, Selenium) or performance testing tools (e.g., JMeter, Siege).
• Familiarity with EV charging protocols (e.g., OCPP, ISO15118) or similar communication frameworks within the EV ecosystem.
• Understanding of CI/CD pipelines and how testing integrates into release workflows, including build validation, regression testing, and deployment verification.
• Experience supporting or coordinating software release processes, including working across development, QA, and operations teams to ensure smooth, stable, and timely deployments.
• Experience setting up and maintaining test environments, including configuration, deployment, and troubleshooting.
• Experience validating releases in staging or production-like environments, with an understanding of rollout risks and system-level impact.

Additional Bonus

• Hands-on experience in testing for integrated systems.
• Background in mechanical or electrical engineering.
• Background in software engineering.

Soft Skills

• Attention to Detail: Exceptional attention to detail to catch subtle errors and inconsistencies that could lead to larger issues down the line.
• Critical Thinking: The ability to approach problems methodically and use data-driven insights to make informed decisions. A keen analytical mind that questions assumptions and seeks new solutions.
• Adaptability: The capacity to quickly adjust to new challenges and changes in project requirements or technologies, maintaining effectiveness in a dynamic environment.
• Team Collaboration: Strong team player skills, with the ability to work cooperatively with developers, other QA testers, and project managers to achieve common goals.
• Leadership Potential: While primarily a contributor role, potential for leadership is a plus, including the ability to mentor junior staff or lead testing segments of projects.

Why Join

• Be part of a dynamic and fast-growing company
• Competitive Salary
• Benefits Package includes:
• Medical, Dental and Vision insurance
• Paid Holidays
• Paid Time Off
• Ability to Participate in Electric Vehicle Incentive Program
• Ability to Participate in Company 401K Plan with match
• Quarterly Mental Health Days
• Employee Educational Reimbursement

Final compensation will be determined based on experience and skills, but will sit in a range of $80,000 - $90,000

The company is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE) and offers a remote-friendly work environment with benefits and the opportunity for personal growth as well as advancement within the company.

Engagement Structure

This role begins as a 1099 independent contractor engagement for up to three (3) months, with the intention of converting to a permanent, full-time position based on mutual fit and performance during the contract period. Benefits listed above apply upon conversion to a permanent employee.