Senior Software Engineer, AI Model serving - Frankfurt, Germany

Clutch Canada; Remote; EUR 60.000 - 100.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

A tech company focusing on AI and audio seeks a Senior Backend Engineer in Frankfurt, Germany. This role involves optimizing product flows and building resilient systems in a fully remote environment. Ideal candidates will have proven backend development experience in Python, knowledge of cloud services, and familiarity with Docker and Kubernetes. Competitive compensation and a collaborative atmosphere are offered. The company values innovation and diversity, making a significant societal impact through its products.

Leistungen

Competitive compensation

Welcoming atmosphere

Asynchronous work culture

Impactful work on AI products

Qualifikationen

• Proven experience in backend development, particularly with Python.
• Direct experience with GCP; knowledge of AWS/Azure is beneficial.
• Experience with Docker and containerized deployments.

Aufgaben

• Optimize key product flows and ensure infrastructure scalability.
• Develop state-of-the-art voice cloning features.
• Implement low-latency, cost-effective text-to-speech solutions.

Kenntnisse

Backend development

Python

GCP

AWS

Docker

Kubernetes

NLP or TTS models

Jobbeschreibung

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Mission

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.

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.

Our interview process involves several technical interviews and we aim to complete them within 1 week.

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.

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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.