Important Information

Experience: +6 years

Job Mode: Full-time

Work Mode: Remote

ID: OPP00051-1

Responsibilities and Duties

• Digest requirement from product team and lead the elaboration of high level design for high availability, performance and scalability features for cloud systems; 
• Raise and discuss trade-offs of different design approaches elaborating detailed design documents; 
• Implement solution from coding to testing to production deployment support; 
• Follow agile processes and participate actively in all development phases.

Essential Skills 

• Experience with Golang (Go) programming language;  
• Extensive experience with modeling, producing and consuming web services based APIs (RESTful or SOAP based); 
• Experience on Cloud Service Orchestration; 
• Experience with Cloud Development; 
• Experience with backend systems development; 
• Proven proficiency with object-oriented software development; 
• Proven experience on complex architectural design for cloud-based applications; 
• Design Patterns; 
• Experience with SQL and NoSQL databases such as PostgreSQL, SQL Server, Oracle, MongoDB, Cassandra. 

Highly Desirable Skills 

• Competent in one or more programming language(s): Go (Golang), Python, Node, C#, C and C++, Java; 
• Knowledge on testing (Unit Test, Feature Test, Integration); 
• Knowledge of cloud platforms and technologies including Google Cloud, Aws, Azure; 
• Experience working with Kubernetes and OpenShift; 
• Exposure to and/or experience with Serverless applications; 
• An understanding of software design patterns, pipeline automation and software testing principles and methodologies; 
• Familiar with designing, coding, deploying and debugging microservices applications; 
• Strong Scripting and automation skills; 
• Passionate about solving problems in code; 
• Is proactive and easily trouble shoots and resolves issues relating to customer service, product, process and tools; 
• Comfortable with Linux Environment and shell scripting.

About Encora

Encora is the preferred digital engineering and modernization partner of some of the world’s leading enterprises and digital native companies. With over 9,000 experts in 47+ offices and innovation labs worldwide, Encora’s technology practices include Product Engineering & Development, Cloud Services, Quality Engineering, DevSecOps, Data & Analytics, Digital Experience, Cybersecurity, and AI & LLM Engineering.

At Encora, we hire professionals based solely on their skills and qualifications, and do not discriminate based on age, disability, religion, gender, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, or nationality.

Important Information 

Location: Brazil
Job Mode: Full-time 
Work Mode: Work from home

Responsibilities and Duties

• Digest requirement from product team and lead the elaboration of high level design for high availability, performance and scalability features for cloud systems; 
• Raise and discuss trade-offs of different design approaches elaborating detailed design documents; 
• Implement solution from coding to testing to production deployment support; 
• Follow agile processes and participate actively in all development phases.

Essential Skills 

• Experience with Golang (Go) programming language;  
• Extensive experience with modeling, producing and consuming web services based APIs (RESTful or SOAP based); 
• Experience on Cloud Service Orchestration; 
• Experience with Cloud Development; 
• Experience with backend systems development; 
• Proven proficiency with object-oriented software development; 
• Proven experience on complex architectural design for cloud-based applications; 
• Design Patterns; 
• Experience with SQL and NoSQL databases such as PostgreSQL, SQL Server, Oracle, MongoDB, Cassandra. 
  

Highly Desirable Skills 

• Competent in one or more programming language(s): Go (Golang), Python, Node, C#, C and C++, Java; 
• Knowledge on testing (Unit Test, Feature Test, Integration); 
• Knowledge of cloud platforms and technologies including Google Cloud, Aws, Azure; 
• Experience working with Kubernetes and OpenShift; 
• Exposure to and/or experience with Serverless applications; 
• An understanding of software design patterns, pipeline automation and software testing principles and methodologies; 
• Familiar with designing, coding, deploying and debugging microservices applications; 
• Strong Scripting and automation skills; 
• Passionate about solving problems in code; 
• Is proactive and easily trouble shoots and resolves issues relating to customer service, product, process and tools; 
• Comfortable with Linux Environment and shell scripting.

About Encora

Encora is the preferred digital engineering and modernization partner of some of the world’s leading enterprises and digital native companies. With over 9,000 experts in 47+ offices and innovation labs worldwide, Encora’s technology practices include Product Engineering & Development, Cloud Services, Quality Engineering, DevSecOps, Data & Analytics, Digital Experience, Cybersecurity, and AI & LLM Engineering.

At Encora, we hire professionals based solely on their skills and qualifications, and do not discriminate based on age, disability, religion, gender, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, or nationality.

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

We're looking to hire for our Data side of our AI team at Speechify. This role is responsible for all aspects of data collection to support our model training operations. We are able to build high-quality datasets at petabyte-scale and low cost through a tight integration of infrastructure, engineering, and research work. We are looking for a skilled Software Engineer to join us.

What You’ll Do

• Be scrappy to find new sources of audio data and bring it into our ingestion pipeline
• Operate and extend the cloud infrastructure for our ingestion pipeline, currently running on GCP and managed with Terraform.
• Collaborate closely with our Scientists to shift the cost/throughput/quality frontier, delivering richer data at bigger scale and lower cost to power our next-generation models.
• Collaborate with others on the AI Team and Speechify Leadership to craft the AI Team’s dataset roadmap to power Speechify’s next-generation consumer and enterprise products.

An Ideal Candidate Should Have

• BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science or a related field.
• 5+ years of industry experience in software development.
• Proficiency with bash/Python scripting in Linux environments
• Proficiency in Docker and Infrastructure-as-Code concepts and professional experience with at least one major Cloud Provider (we use GCP)
• Experience with web crawlers, large-scale data processing workflows is a plus
• Ability to handle multiple tasks and adapt to changing priorities.
• Strong communication skills, both written and verbal.

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.