Platform Backend Engineer: APIs, TTS & Cloud (Remote)

Speechify; Oxford; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Autonomy and impact

Asynchronous work culture

Innovation-focused environment

Diversity and inclusive culture

Job summary

Speechify is a distributed, AI-driven audio tech company seeking a backend engineer to design, develop, and maintain robust APIs across payments, analytics, subscriptions, and text-to-speech services. The role focuses on building scalable backend systems and APIs that power a range of products across platforms.

You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, drive performance improvements, and help shape product decisions while delivering high-quality user experiences for millions of users

Qualifications

• Proven experience in backend development: TS/Node (required).
• 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.
• Preferred: Experience with Docker and containerized deployments.
• Preferred: Proficiency in deploying high availability applications on Kubernetes.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain robust APIs including public TTS API, internal APIs like Payment, Subscription, Auth and Consumption Tracking, ensuring they meet business and scalability requirements
• Oversee the full backend API landscape, enhancing and optimizing for performance and maintainability
• Collaborate on B2B solutions, focusing on customization and integration needs for enterprise clients
• Work closely with cross-functional teams to align backend architecture with overall product strategy and user experience

Skills

TS/Node

GCP

AWS/Azure

Docker

Kubernetes

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Speechify is a distributed, AI-driven audio tech company seeking a backend engineer to design, develop, and maintain robust APIs across payments, analytics, subscriptions, and text-to-speech services. The role focuses on building scalable backend systems and APIs that power a range of products across platforms.

You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, drive performance improvements, and help shape product decisions while delivering high-quality user experiences for millions of users