Senior Software Engineer; Core

Responsibilities

• 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.
• Collaborate with Speechify’s Product Teams to scope projects, find ways to reduce scope to get faster feedback from customers, navigate 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.

• Systems thinking: ability to optimize a system end‑to‑end and value simplicity.
• Focus: thrive in a high‑growth startup environment; know when to engage or work independently.
• Collaboration:
  
  inspire, play, and negotiate with opinionated designers, marketers, and PMs.
• Speed: work quickly to generate ideas, decide what can ship now versus what needs time.
• Kotlin Multiplatform (Java experience is OK but the role focuses on Kotlin Multiplatform).
• Prior experience with GCP is a plus.