Tech Lead, Web Core Product & Chrome Extension - Montreal, Canada

Speechify; Montreal; Remote; CAD 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A technology-driven startup is seeking a candidate for a key role to ship production code and influence product development. The ideal candidate has experience building scalable products, is customer-focused, and thrives in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment. The role offers competitive salary and the chance to impact millions of users.

Benefits

Fast-growing environment

Supportive entrepreneurial team

Hands-off approach to work

Opportunity to make an impact

Competitive salary

Qualifications

• You have experience building products that scaled to thousands or millions of users.
• You work quickly to generate ideas and know what can ship now.
• You inspire and collaborate with teams effectively.

Responsibilities

• Actively ship production code to the web products.
• Work closely with your dedicated product team.
• Participate in product discussions to shape the product roadmap.
• Work on new features impacting millions of lives.

Skills

Experience building and shipping products

Customer obsession

Speed in decision-making

Focus in a remote high-growth environment

Collaboration with designers and marketers

Tools

Vanilla JS

ReactJS

Redux

Firebase

Typescript

Job description

Overview

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 App of the Day.

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.

This is a key role and ideal for someone who thinks strategically, enjoys fast-paced environments, passionate about making product decisions, and has experience building great user experiences that delight users.

Responsibilities

• Actively ship production code to the web products
• Work closely with your dedicated product team
• Participate in product discussions to shape the product roadmap
• Have the opportunity to work on new and exciting features that will impact millions of lives

Ideal Candidate

• Experience. You've built and ship products that have scaled to thousands or millions of users
• Customer obsession. You are passionate about the field and have the desire to build high quality product that serves customer needs
• Speed. You work quickly to generate ideas and know how to decide which things can ship now and what things need time
• Focus. We're a high-growth startup with a busy, remote team. You know how and when to engage or be heads down
• Collaboration. You know how to inspire, play, and negotiate with opinionated designers, marketers, and PMs
• Tech Stack: Vanilla JS, ReactJS, Redux, Firebase, Typescript

What We Offer

• A fast-growing environment where you can help shape the culture
• An entrepreneurial crew that supports risk, intuition, and hustle
• A hands-off approach so you can focus and do your best work
• The opportunity to make an impact in a transformative industry
• A competitive salary, a collegiate atmosphere, and a commitment to building a great asynchronous culture

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Tell us more about yourself and why you're interested in the role when you apply. And don't forget to include links to your portfolio and LinkedIn. Not looking but know someone who would make a great fit? Refer them!

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.