Platform Backend Engineer – Payments & API

Speechify; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Autonomy

Competitive pay

Flexible hours

Asynchronous culture

Impactful work

Job summary

Speechify is seeking a Software Engineer, Platform in London to own backend services powering payments, subscriptions, and the public TTS API. You will design, optimize, and scale critical systems used across iOS, Android, Mac, Chrome, and web.

You’ll work with product teams to stay ahead of product direction, focus on reliability, and automate repetitive tasks while contributing to a high-velocity, distributed engineering culture.

Qualifications

• 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 it created.
• 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 actual request — 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

Responsibilities

• 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

Skills

TS/Node

GCP

Docker

Kubernetes

Cloud knowledge

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Cloud platforms

Job description

Speechify is seeking a Software Engineer, Platform in London to own backend services powering payments, subscriptions, and the public TTS API. You will design, optimize, and scale critical systems used across iOS, Android, Mac, Chrome, and web.

You’ll work with product teams to stay ahead of product direction, focus on reliability, and automate repetitive tasks while contributing to a high-velocity, distributed engineering culture.