Software Engineer, iOS Core Product - Houston

Software Engineer, iOS Core Product - Houston, USA

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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.

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 product 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.

• 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 building products that scaled to a large user base
• Track record of engineering products from inception to traction, responsible for engineering the product
• Customer obsession: a constant focus on providing the best experience for users
• Product thinking: making thoughtful decisions about product evolution and supporting internal teams and designers in the right direction
• Speed: generate ideas quickly and decide what can ship now vs. what needs time
• Focus: ability to engage or be heads‑down in a high‑growth, remote team environment
• Technical skills:
  Swift, SwiftUI

• Swift Programming Language
• Swift
  
  UI experience
• Experience with multithreading programming
• Working with CI/CD infrastructure
• Experience with Fastlane
• Solid principles, the ability to write 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 where 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

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

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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.