Software Engineer, iOS Core Product - Stuttgart, Germany

Software Engineer, iOS Core Product - Stuttgart, Germany

Stuttgart, Germany

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.

With the growth of our iOS app, being the #18 productivity app in the App Store category and our recent recognition as Apple’s 2025 Design Award for inclusivity, we need a Senior iOS Engineer to help support the new user base and work on new and exciting projects to push our product forward.

This is a key role 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.

• 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 working on products that scaled to a large user base
• Track record of engineering products from inception to traction, responsible for engineering the product
• Customer obsession: constantly focused on providing the best possible experience for users whose responsibilities directly impact customers
• Product thinking: makes thoughtful decisions about the evolution of the product and supports internal teams and designers in the right direction
• Speed: works quickly to generate ideas, decides what can ship now and what needs time
• Focus: knows how and when to engage or be heads‑down in a high‑growth, remote team
• Technical skills:
  Swift, Swift
  
  UI, multithreading, CI/CD, Fastlane, SOLID principles, Git and strategy knowledge

• 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 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

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.