Senior Software Engineer, AI Model Serving United Kingdom

Senior Software Engineer, AI Model Serving - Bristol, United Kingdom

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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, including our iOS, Android, Mac, Chrome Extension, and Web Apps, to turn PDFs, books, Google Docs, news articles, and websites into audio.

Speechify was recently named the Chrome Extension of the Year and Apple named Speechify its App of the Day. Today, nearly 200 people work on Speechify in a distributed setting – no office. Our team includes frontend, backend engineers, AI research scientists, and talent from Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Stripe, Vercel, Bolt, among others.

This key role is 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 encourages leadership through technical excellence and quickly delivering results. 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.

As Speechify expands, our AI team seeks a Senior Backend Engineer. This role is central to ensuring our infrastructure scales efficiently, optimizing key product flows, and constructing resilient end‑to‑end systems.

• State‑of‑the‑art voice cloning
• Low latency and cost‑effective text-to-speech

• Proven experience in backend development with Python
• 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
• Experience with Docker and containerized deployments
• Proficiency in deploying high‑availability applications on Kubernetes
• Preferred:
  Experience deploying NLP or TTS models to production

• 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, especially for those with learning differences like dyslexia, ADD, etc.
• An active role at the intersection of artificial intelligence and audio – a rapidly evolving tech domain

Tell us more about yourself and why you're interested in the role when you apply. Include links to your portfolio and Linked In.

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.