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

Think you’re a good fit for this job? 

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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.

Established in 2004, we are a tech pioneer offering world-class adult entertainment and games on some of the internet’s safest and most popular platforms. With the support of an international team of dynamic and collaborative innovators, we are on a mission to enable safe user experiences and empower our communities by celebrating diversity, inclusion, and expression — all while maintaining robust trust-and-safety protocols. 

We embrace the best of both worlds! Local talent can thrive in our collaborative office space with the flexibility of a hybrid work environment, while remote team members play an integral role in shaping our dynamic culture from afar. We have offices in Montreal (Quebec), Austin (Texas) and Nicosia (Cyprus). 

*A select number of positions require full-time in office attendance* 

As a PHP developer, get the opportunity to work on some of the most visited websites in the world, work with big data and have your limits pushed by getting exposed to new technologies while working with some of the most talented developers.

What you'll be doing: 

• Develop and maintain microservices, APIs, and applications built around PHP.
• Exploit full potential of diverse backend technologies to leverage real time pipelining of big and secured data.
• Work with caches, messaging queues, databases, and diverse in-house and third-party systems.
• Take ownership of components and domain knowledge by guiding your peers through pull requests and code reviews. Participate in the propagation of development culture, processes, and values shared by the team.

What you'll need to be successful:

Must Haves:

• 3+ years related work experience as a backend software developer 
• Experience with Livewire (Bootstrap CSS Framework)
• Interest in working in Frontend
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science/Engineering is an asset
• Excellent knowledge of a web language (PHP, Javascript, Python, GO, etc.)
• Understanding of computational and data complexity, scalability, security

Nice to Have:

• Experience with PHP alongside a framework (Lumen, Yii, Laravel, Symfony, etc.)
• Experience with Docker, ELK, RabbitMQ, Redis and GitlabCI
• Ability to use AI coding assistants to streamline code generation, debugging, and unit testing.
• Strong knowledge of database technologies to scale for high volume web sites (Redis, Memcached)
• Experience in dealing with large scale websites that receive millions of visits per day

As an equal opportunity employer, we celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees  

In this role you may be exposed to adult content