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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.
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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.
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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 App of the Day.
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 iOS app, being the #18 productivity app in the App Store category and also our recent recognition as Apple's 2025 Design Award for inclusivity, we find the need for a Senior iOS Engineer to help us support the new user base as well as work on new and exciting projects to push our missing 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.
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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.
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My client is a leading Web3 and Decentralized Finance (DeFi) company and looking for a Senior Smart Contract Engineer (Solidity/Rust/Move) roles.
Protocol Architecture & Deployment: Architect and implement core on-chain protocols for a Decentralized Exchange (DEX), including capital vaults, clearinghouses, and settlement engines.
On-Chain Transaction Logic: Develop the underlying logic for clearing and settlement processes, ensuring high-fidelity integration with off-chain high-performance matching engines.
Oracle System Integration: Design and maintain robust Oracle contract frameworks to support real-time price feeds, data validation, and asset valuation.
Security & Audit Management: Lead smart contract security hardening initiatives, collaborate with external auditors to rectify vulnerabilities, and oversee mainnet deployments.
End-to-End Synergy: Partner with backend and QA teams to bridge the gap between off-chain trade commands and on-chain fund movements for seamless execution.
Academic Background: Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Cryptography, or a related technical field.
Solidity Mastery: 3+ years of professional Solidity development with deep expertise in EVM mechanics, Gas optimization techniques, and ERC standards.
DeFi Domain Expertise: 2+ years of specialized experience in DEX clearing and settlement workflows, including sophisticated Oracle integration.
Multi-Chain Proficiency: Proficient in Rust or Move programming, with the ability to lead contract module development across diverse blockchain ecosystems.
Ecosystem Knowledge: Strong understanding of the architectural paradigms of high-performance chains such as Solana or Sui.
Experience developing advanced vault standards (e.g., ERC-4626, ERC-7540, or ERC-7575) and complex accounting logic.
Familiarity with advanced security methodologies, including Fuzzing or Formal Verification.
Proven track record of successful smart contract audits or hands-on experience in incident response and protocol hardening.
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We are seeking a seasoned Backend Engineer with deep expertise in decentralized finance (DeFi) to lead the architectural design and development of our client's high-performance DEX platform. You will be responsible for building the core components of a world-class trading environment, focusing on ultra-low latency, high concurrency, and uncompromising security.
Architectural Leadership: Design and develop the core server-side architecture for a Decentralized Exchange (DEX).
Core Module Engineering: Lead the implementation of critical modules, including matching engines, order books, market data broadcasting, risk management, and clearing/settlement systems.
Infrastructure & Connectivity: Develop and maintain high-performance trading gateways (REST/WebSocket), market data feeds, and K-line services.
Performance Optimization: Ensure the stability and performance of high-concurrency, low-latency trading systems through rigorous JVM tuning and system-level optimizations.
Resilience & Security: Build foundational capabilities for data persistence, comprehensive logging, automated backups, and robust disaster recovery protocols.
Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner closely with Smart Contract and Frontend teams to ensure seamless end-to-end integration across the entire trading lifecycle.
Educational Background: Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field.
Java Expertise: 8+ years of professional Java development experience, with mastery of multi-threading, concurrency models, and JVM performance tuning.
DEX Domain Knowledge: 3+ years of direct experience in DEX/Exchange server-side development, with a deep understanding of matching, clearing, and risk control workflows.
High-Performance Frameworks: Proven experience with LMAX Disruptor, Chronicle, or similar high-performance frameworks; familiarity with Exchange-core architectures is essential.
Data Management: Expertise in MySQL, Redis, and MongoDB, including advanced database design, index optimization, and distributed transaction management.
System Reliability: Deep understanding of multi-active database deployments and disaster recovery; ability to lead team-wide emergency drills.
Messaging & Streaming: Proficiency in Kafka (consumer groups, partitioning, persistence) and real-time data processing.
Cloud & DevOps: Hands-on experience with Docker and Kubernetes (Deployment, Service, Ingress, Monitoring); proficiency with AWS or Alibaba Cloud ecosystems (EC2/ECS, RDS, OSS).
Experience with EVM-based on-chain settlement, Oracles, and off-chain data integration.
Familiarity with modern observability stacks, including Prometheus, Grafana, and ELK.
Polyglot capabilities: Ability to develop stable auxiliary services in Golang or Node.js for on-chain data retrieval and analysis.
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我们正在支持一个资金充足的下一代 Layer 1 区块链项目。该平台专门用于现实世界资产(RWA)和稳定币的代币化及链上流通,重点关注机构的采用。
团队正在构建基础设施,将传统的 Web2 机构连接到 Web3,拓展链上资产的多样性,解锁新的收益机会,并促进更广泛的投资者参与。他们的使命是帮助企业克服操作、监管和知识障碍,使其能够以安全、合规和可扩展的方式在链上部署资产。凭借深厚的现实世界资产领域专业知识和强大的技术执行能力,团队正在开发面向机构的区块链基础设施和综合去中心化生态系统。
我们正在寻找一位优秀的区块链开发者,专注于区块链内部结构,旨在重新定义我们去中心化网络的性能界限。这个角色适合能够在执行层、虚拟机架构和跨链连接方面解决复杂挑战的技术愿景者。
We are supporting a well-funded, next-generation Layer 1 blockchain project. The platform is purpose-built for the tokenization and on-chain circulation of real-world assets (RWA) and stablecoins, with a strong focus on institutional adoption.
The team is building infrastructure that bridges traditional Web2 institutions into Web3, expanding on-chain asset diversity, unlocking new yield opportunities, and enabling broader investor participation. Their mission is to help enterprises overcome operational, regulatory, and knowledge barriers, allowing them to deploy assets on-chain in a secure, compliant, and scalable manner. With deep RWA domain expertise and strong technical execution, the team is developing institutional-grade blockchain infrastructure and a comprehensive decentralized ecosystem designed to support large-scale, real-world asset adoption.
We are seeking a high-caliber Blockchain Developer specializing in blockchain internals to redefine the performance boundaries of our decentralized network. This role is designed for a technical visionary who thrives on solving complex challenges within execution layers, virtual machine architecture, and cross-chain connectivity.
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A pioneering Custom Tokenization-As-A-Service platform focused on Real-World Assets (RWA) is expanding its engineering team. Backed by strong angel investors and preparing for institutional funding, we partner with licensed exchanges and target Fortune 500 enterprises, AI data centers, and specialized sectors to bring enhanced liquidity and efficiency through tokenization.
We are seeking a talented Frontend Engineer to build intuitive, high-performance user interfaces for our decentralized RWA management platform. You will play a key role in delivering seamless experiences across web and mobile applications, with deep integration into Web3 ecosystems.
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We’re a fast-moving, AI-leveraged rapid prototyping lab creating innovative products in martech, fintech, web apps, websites, crypto, and more. Our team thrives on versatility, speed, and creativity, delivering solutions that blend cutting-edge tech with real-world impact.
Job Summary:
As an AI Leveraged Product Generalist, you’ll contribute across multiple areas—such as coding, design, multimedia, marketing, or project management—to build and launch prototypes and MVPs. You’ll collaborate with specialists and leverage AI tools to deliver solutions in a rapid development environment, ideally spanning several of our domains (martech, fintech, web, crypto), with the ability to cover all being a bonus but not Required.
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About Us:
We’re a fast-moving, AI-leveraged rapid prototyping lab creating innovative products in martech, fintech, web apps, websites, crypto, and more. Our developers are the backbone of our mission to build and iterate at speed, delivering solutions that blend cutting-edge tech with real-world impact.
Job Summary:
As a Software Developer, you’ll build and iterate on prototypes and MVPs across our diverse product stack. Working closely with product managers and marketing professionals, you’ll leverage AI tools and frameworks to deliver scalable, secure, and high-performance solutions in a rapid development environment.
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