Senior Software Engineer, Core Experiences

Speechify is hiring a Senior Software Engineer for the Core Experiences Team in Houston, TX. This onsite role focuses on building and maintaining foundational services and SDKs that power Speechify across platforms, with emphasis on APIs, infrastructure, and reliable systems.

Benefits

• A fast-growing environment where you can help shape the company and product.
• An entrepreneurial-minded team that supports risk-taking, intuition, and hustle.
• A hands-off management approach that lets you focus and perform at your best.
• The opportunity to make a meaningful impact in a transforming industry.
• Competitive compensation, a friendly and laid-back culture, and a strong asynchronous work ethos.
• The chance to work on a life-changing product used by millions.
• The ability to build products that directly support people with learning differences such as dyslexia, ADD, low vision, concussions, autism, and more.
• A position in one of the fastest growing sectors of tech, at the intersection of artificial intelligence and audio.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with Product Teams to scope initiatives, trim scope for faster customer feedback, weigh integration and UX tradeoffs across teams, and deliver solutions via the cross-platform SDK.
• Improve existing functionality to enable faster loading and smarter parsing by creating efficient abstractions and refining algorithms.
• Deliver cloud functions, lightweight backend services, and batch jobs using Kotlin.

Requirements

• Systems thinking
• Speed
• Focus
• Collaboration
• Kotlin Multiplatform experience (Java experience is acceptable, but the role emphasizes Kotlin Multiplatform)
• Prior experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) is a plus

Technologies

• Kotlin Multiplatform
• Java
• GCP