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Senior Software Engineer, Core Experiences - St. Petersburg, USA

Speechify builds accessible audio-first products that let users listen to articles, documents, and books. The Core Experiences team maintains foundational services and cross-platform SDKs; we're seeking a Senior Software Engineer who can design clear APIs, ship lightweight backend services, and improve performance and parsing to directly enhance the product experience.

Skills

  • Kotlin Multiplatform experience
  • Backend service development with Kotlin
  • API design and SDK development
  • Systems thinking and performance optimization
  • Familiarity with cloud functions and jobs
  • Cross-team collaboration and product-minded engineering

Responsibilities

  • Collaborate with product teams to scope work, reduce scope for quick feedback, and navigate integration/UX tradeoffs
  • Design and maintain clear, reliable APIs and lightweight abstractions for cross-platform SDKs
  • Implement cloud functions, backend services, and jobs primarily using Kotlin
  • Optimize performance (faster loading, smarter parsing) through better abstractions and algorithmic improvements
  • Ship production-quality code, perform code reviews, and mentor teammates
  • Balance product and infrastructure needs to deliver pragmatic, user-focused solutions

Education

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent practical experience

Benefits

  • Competitive salary with bonus and equity (stock) opportunities
  • Fast-growing, entrepreneurial environment with high impact potential
  • Remote-friendly, asynchronous culture and hands-off management
  • Opportunity to build products that help people with learning differences
  • Work at the intersection of AI and audio with millions of users
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Speechify is the easiest way to listen to the world’s information. Articles on the web, documents in the cloud, books on your phone—we absorb the world’s content and help our members listen to it on the go, at their own speed, with tools that make...

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