Senior Software Engineer, AI Model serving (Speechify Inc)

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 2025 Design Award winner for Inclusivity.  

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.

To apply for any of our engineering roles, please visit Greenhouse: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/speechify 

Overview

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. If you are passionate about strategizing, enjoy high-paced environments, and are eager to take ownership of product decisions, we’d love to hear from you.

What You’ll Do

• State of the art voice cloning

• Low latency and cost effective text to speech

An Ideal Candidate Should Have

• Proven experience in backend development: 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.

What We Offer

• 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, particularly for those with learning differences like dyslexia, ADD, and more.

• An active role at the intersection of artificial intelligence and audio – a rapidly evolving tech domain.

Compensation: The US base salary range for this full-time position is $140,000-$200,000 + bonus + equity depending on experience

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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.