Mission

Speechify is the easiest way to listen to the world’s information. Articles on the web, documents in the cloud, books on your phone. We absorb it all and let you listen to it at your desk, on the go, at your own speed, and with tools that make learning easier, deeper, and faster.

What streaming services have done for audio entertainment, we’re doing for audio information. And whatever we’re doing seems to be working. We’re #1 in our category, and experiencing exponential growth.

Overview

We're looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our Core Experiences Team. This team builds and maintains the foundational services and SDKs that power Speechify’s product experience across platforms. It's a critical role for someone who enjoys working at the intersection of product and infrastructure, thinks strategically, and is passionate about designing clear, reliable APIs and simple systems that directly enhance the user experience.

What You’ll Do

• Collaborate with Speechify’s Product Teams to scope projects, find ways to reduce scope to get faster feedback from customers, navigate the integration/UX tradeoffs relevant to different product teams, and deliver solutions via our cross-platform SDK
• Optimize existing functionality to ship things like faster loading and more intelligent parsing by designing more efficient abstractions and improving our algorithms
• Ship cloud functions, lightweight backend services, and jobs using Kotlin

An Ideal Candidate Should Have

• Systems thinking. You know that optimizing a system requires end-to-end design, and you believe simplicity is valuable.
• Speed. You work quickly to generate ideas and options and know how to decide which things can ship now and what things need time
• Focus. We’re a high-growth startup with a busy, remote team. You know how and when to engage or be heads down
• Collaboration. You know how to inspire, play, and negotiate with opinionated designers, marketers, and PMs
• Preferred Tech Stack:
  • Kotlin Multiplatform (Java experience is OK but role is Kotlin Multiplatform) 
  • Prior experience with GCP is a plus

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.

Think you’re a good fit for this job? 

Tell us more about yourself and why you're interested in the role when you apply.
And don’t forget to include links to your portfolio and LinkedIn.

Not looking but know someone who would make a great fit? 

Refer them! 

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 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? 

Tell us more about yourself and why you're interested in the role when you apply.
And don’t forget to include links to your portfolio and LinkedIn.

Not looking but know someone who would make a great fit? 

Refer them! 

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 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.

Think you’re a good fit for this job? 

Tell us more about yourself and why you're interested in the role when you apply.
And don’t forget to include links to your portfolio and LinkedIn.

Not looking but know someone who would make a great fit? 

Refer them! 

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.

About Zone & Co: 

Zone & Co is on a mission to empower finance professionals to drive strategic growth through seamless, intelligent operations. We build cloud-native software solutions on Oracle NetSuite, automating complex financial processes like billing, accounts payable, reporting, and reconciliation. Our vision is to unlock the full strategic potential of finance by infusing the ERP with the intelligence and automation needed for truly transformative operations. Join our rapidly growing team as we redefine financial efficiency for scaling businesses worldwide.

The Role: We are seeking a meticulous and proactive Security and Privacy Compliance Analyst to help safeguard our organization and our customers' data. Reporting directly to the Director of IT, Security and Compliance, you will play a critical role in maturing our governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) programs. In this position, you will bridge the gap between technical security controls and regulatory requirements, ensuring that Zone & Co's rapidly expanding suite of financial software maintains the highest standards of data protection and privacy.

This role requires a strong foundational knowledge of major security frameworks and privacy regulations, a keen eye for detail in auditing internal processes, and the ability to clearly communicate compliance postures to both internal engineering teams and enterprise customers.

Essential Job Functions:

• Compliance Framework Governance: Lead the management and continuous scaling of Zone & Co’s core security compliance frameworks, specifically SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001.
• Privacy Operations Leadership: Govern global data privacy operations to ensure strict, ongoing alignment with GDPR, CCPA/CPRA, and other emerging data protection laws.
• Customer Trust & Revenue Enablement: Serve as the primary security liaison for enterprise customers, directly supporting the sales cycle by demonstrating and communicating a robust, mature security posture.
• Risk & Audit Management: Manage the organization's internal audit program and oversee the third-party vendor risk lifecycle to proactively identify and mitigate vulnerabilities.

Responsibilities, Duties, and Tasks:

• Audit Coordination: Coordinate evidence collection, manage project timelines, and partner directly with external auditors during annual compliance assessments.
• Privacy Assessments: Conduct Data Privacy Impact Assessments (DPIAs) for new products and process Data Subject Access Requests (DSARs) within mandated SLAs.
• Questionnaires & Trust Center: Accurately and efficiently complete incoming vendor security questionnaires from prospects and maintain up-to-date documentation in our customer-facing Trust Center.
• Internal Control Testing: Design and execute internal audits to test whether technical and administrative controls are operating effectively. Track control gaps and drive engineering/IT remediation efforts.
• Vendor Risk Reviews: Evaluate the security and privacy postures of prospective and existing third-party vendors and sub-processors through comprehensive risk assessments.
• Policy & Training Development: Draft, update, and publish internal security policies, standard operating procedures (SOPs), and incident response plans. Develop and administer engaging company-wide security and privacy awareness training.

What You'll Bring (Qualifications and Experience):

• Experience: 3+ years of direct experience in IT Audit, Information Security, Privacy Operations, or GRC (Governance, Risk, and Compliance), preferably within a B2B SaaS, FinTech, or cloud technology environment.
• Deep Domain Expertise: Hands-on experience working with established compliance frameworks (SOC 2, ISO 27001) and navigating global privacy legislation (GDPR, CCPA).
• SaaS/Cloud Acumen: A solid understanding of cloud computing architectures (AWS, Azure, GCP) and enterprise software environments. Familiarity with ERP systems (like NetSuite) is a strong plus.
• Analytical & Problem-Solving Skills: Proven ability to translate complex regulatory requirements into actionable, practical controls for IT and engineering teams without stifling innovation.
• Exceptional Communication: Outstanding written and verbal communication skills. You must be able to write clear policies, translate technical risks for business leaders, and confidently answer complex customer security questions.
• Education & Certifications: Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems, Cybersecurity, Business, or a related field. Relevant industry certifications such as CISA, CISM, CIPP/E, CIPP/US, or Security+ are highly preferred.

We're looking for a AI Engineer to join AI & Data Team. The Senior AI Engineer will lead the design, development, and deployment of cutting-edge AI solutions particularly those involving Large Language Models (LLMs), intelligent agents, and AI systems that integrate seamlessly into production-grade software. This person will work independently with minimal supervision while collaborating across teams to deliver intelligent, scalable, and reliable applications.

They will be responsible not only for crafting models and prototypes, but also for embedding these into robust applications, building APIs, writing clean code, and ensuring the operational success of AI-powered features in real-world environments.

The main objective of this role is to bridge AI innovation and software engineering excellence deploying LLMs, agents, and smart systems into full-stack products and production infrastructure.

What are the main responsibilities of this role? 

• Design and implement LLM-based solutions (e.g., RAG systems, multi-agent tools, copilots).
• Fine-tune, evaluate, and deploy open-source and proprietary foundation models.
• Build end-to-end AI-powered features in collaboration with product and engineering teams.
• Create scalable APIs and services to expose AI functionality to frontend/mobile clients.
• Own the lifecycle of AI features from experimentation to deployment and monitoring.
• Collaborate with DevOps to implement CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure-as-code for AI services.
• Implement observability, error tracking, and performance monitoring on deployed AI features.
• Evaluate and experiment with diverse AI frameworks and libraries (LangChain, Transformers, OpenAI SDKs, etc.).
• Lead technical discussions and mentor peers in AI best practices and architecture.
• Identify AI-driven product opportunities by working closely with clients or internal teams.

Which skills and experience do we envision for this role?

• +4 years of experience in AI/ML-focused roles with shipped software products.
• Hands-on experience with LLMs (OpenAI, Claude, Mistral, open-source models) and agent frameworks (LangChain, AutoGPT, etc.).
• Proficiency in prompt engineering, vector databases (Pinecone, Weaviate, etc.), and embedding strategies.
• Experience with testing AI systems using tools such as Promptfoo, Giskard, etc
• Solid Python skills, with experience building APIs using FastAPI, Django, or similar.
• Production experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and tools like Docker, Terraform, Kubernetes.
• Good software development practices: testing, code reviews, version control (Git), and modular design.
• Experience deploying and monitoring AI systems in production.
• Familiarity with MLOps and model deployment workflows is a plus.

Join our team and enjoy:

• Access to Rootstrap University,Conferences/Certifications, and a Mentorship Program for your professional growth.
• Learning Bonus 
• Opportunities to organize cross-functional initiatives and receive 360 Feedback to improve your skills continuously.
• The flexibility to work remotely or from our offices in Montevideo, Buenos Aires, and Medellín, with a flexible time schedule and Workation program.
• Gym benefits, psychological counseling, and weekly lunch reimbursements with special foods in the offices.
• An Onboarding kit and access to cutting-edge technologies and tools to make your work easier.
• Referrals program bonuses, After offices, Prizes, and special occasions gifts to celebrate your achievements.
• People Care referent to support your well-being and personal development.

We value your well-being and happiness. We grow together!

How we work:

• We offer a flexible and diverse work environment that fosters multicultural talent
• We value autonomy and creativity, We want people to bring ideas to the table and to think as leaders.
• We put our focus on real human connections
• We have a commitment to excellence

At Rootstrap, we help companies launch, grow, and scale their digital products and services. With over 290 global team members, we’ve built solutions for industry leaders like MasterClass, Universal, and Google, as well as for innovative startups and inspired pioneers. Our team takes pride in making an impact that goes beyond the code, earning regular recognition as a Fastest Growing Company and Best B2B Service Provider.

We embrace an AI-first mindset, continuously exploring how artificial intelligence can enhance the way we build products, solve problems, and deliver value. Across all stages of the development process, we encourage our teams to actively leverage AI to boost productivity and drive innovation.

With offices in Uruguay, Argentina, and Colombia, we offer the flexibility to work remotely. Discover more about life at Rootstrap at https://www.rootstrap.com/careers.

All of our candidate searches are covered under Uruguayan Law 19691 (the purpose of this law is to promote the inclusion of people with disabilities).

As part of our Security and Compliance process, all seniority levels and roles must follow the company’s information security policies and secure development practices, and promptly report any suspected security incidents or vulnerabilities.