Software Engineer, Platform - Düsseldorf, Germany Düsseldorf, Germany

Speechify; Düsseldorf; Hybrid; EUR 26.000 - 104.000; Vollzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

Autonomy

Competitive pay

Async culture

Impact on AI/Audio

Inclusive workplace

Zusammenfassung

Speechify is building the backend powering payments, subscriptions, auth, consumption tracking, and the public TTS API for billions of users across platforms. You will own critical APIs and relentlessly improve performance, reliability, and cost efficiency.

You’ll work with product, mobile, and web teams to keep backend architectures ahead of product direction, while advocating for robust automation and scalable design.”

Qualifikationen

• Backend experience in TS/Node is required.
• Direct experience with GCP and working knowledge of other clouds (AWS/Azure).
• A habit of delegating work and owning'.
• Experience with AI agents setup and unattended workflows.
• Ability to verify results against logs, DB state and actual requests.

Aufgaben

• Design, build, and own APIs for payments, subscriptions, auth, consumption tracking, and the public TTS API.
• Improve services to be faster, cheaper, and more reliable.
• Ensure correctness before shipping and leave behind automated checks.
• Automate repetitive parts of the role to free up time for higher leverage work.
• Turn one-off work into reusable patterns for the team.
• Design B2B and enterprise integrations for customers.
• Collaborate with product, mobile, and web teams to keep backend architecture ahead.

Kenntnisse

TS/Node backend

GCP experience

Automation & AI agents

Logging & monitoring

Decision making

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Jobbeschreibung

Overview

The Platform team owns the backend behind everything Speechify ships: the public TTS API, payments, subscriptions, auth, consumption tracking, and analytics — serving over 50million users across iOS, Android, Mac, Chrome, and web.

These are systems where correctness compounds. Subscription state has to stay consistentacross five clients and two app-store billing systems that each go quiet at the worst moment. Consumption metering has to be exact enough to bill on and cheap enough to run at ourrequest volume. The public TTS API has external customers with their own productsdepending on our latency and uptime. None of this degrades gracefully — it is either right, orsomeone gets charged twice.

The job is to make your own job smaller. Every system you own here should need less ofyou a year from now than it did the day you took it, and the reward for that is a larger one. That is the entire growth path on this team — there is no separate ladder, and no ceilingexcept the one you stop raising. We are a flat organization: people become leaders here bytaking scope and being right about it, fast.

What You’ll Do

• Design, build, and own the APIs behind payments, subscriptions, auth, consumptiontracking, and our public TTS API
• Take on services you didn't write and make them faster, cheaper, and harder to break
• Establish that a change is correct before it ships, and leave behind the checks that keep itcorrect after you've moved on
• Automate the parts of your role that shouldn't need a person, then go take on what thatfreed you up for
• Turn work you've done once into work the whole team can repeat
• Design B2B and enterprise integrations for customers building on top of us
• Work with product, mobile, and web to keep backend architecture ahead of where theproduct is going

An Ideal Candidate Should Have

• Proven backend experience in TS/Node (required)
• Direct experience with GCP; working knowledge of AWS, Azure, or another cloud
• A habit of giving away work you used to own, and something to show for the room itcreated
• A daily working setup with AI agents you can describe in detail — what runs unattended,what you review, and where you've decided it doesn't get to act alone
• The instinct to check a result against the system itself — logs, database state, the actualrequest — rather than against a summary of it
• Judgment about what not to build, and the ability to say plainly why you dropped it
• A preference for being corrected over being right
• Preferred: Docker and containerized deployments
• Preferred: deploying high-availability applications on Kubernetes

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

The Germany Based Salary range for this role is: 30,000-120,000 USD/Year + Bonus + Stock depending on experience.

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.