Software Engineer, iOS Core Product - Chicago

Software Engineer, iOS Core Product - Chicago, USA

Join to apply for the Software Engineer, iOS Core Product - Chicago, USA role at Speechify

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.

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 mission forward. 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.

• Opportunity to lead key engineering and product decisions
• Actively ship production code for the Speechify iOS app
• Work within a dedicated product team
• Participate in product discussions to shape the product roadmap
• Maintain and enhance the existing complex app architecture

• Experience:
  
  Worked on products that scaled to a large user base
• Track record:
  Handled various products from inception to traction, responsible for engineering the product
• Customer obsession:
  Constantly obsessed about providing the best possible experience for users
• Product thinking:
  Makes thoughtful decisions about the evolution of the product and supports internal teams and designers
• Speed:
  Works quickly to generate ideas and decides which things can ship now and which need time
• Focus:
  Knows how and when to engage or be heads‑down in a high‑growth remote team
• Technical skills:
  Swift, SwiftUI

• Swift programming language
• Swift
  
  UI experience
• Experience in multithreading programming
• Working with CI/CD infrastructure
• Experience with Fastlane
• Solid understanding of SOLID principles, writing every class according to SOLID
• Experience with Git and understanding of different Git strategies

• A fast‑growing environment where you can help shape the company and product
• An entrepreneurial crew that supports risk, intuition, and hustle
• The opportunity to make a big impact in a transformative industry
• A competitive salary, a collegiate atmosphere, and a commitment to building a great asynchronous culture
• Work on a product that millions of people use and daily feedback includes users sharing that they cried when they first found the product because it was so impactful on their lives
• Support people with learning differences like dyslexia, ADD, low vision, concussions, autism, and second‑language learners, and give reading superpowers to professionals all over the world
• Work in one of the fastest growing sectors of tech: intersection of artificial intelligence and audio

The United States Based Salary range for this role is: 140,000‑200,000 USD/Year + Bonus + Stock depending on experience

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 Linked In.

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.

Referrals increase your chances of interviewing at Speechify by 2x.