Platform Backend Engineer (TS/Node) — Remote

Speechify; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully distributed team

Competitive compensation

Impactful product

Job summary

Speechify is seeking a Software Engineer, Platform to join our fully distributed team. You will design, build, and own the backend APIs powering payments, subscriptions, authentication, and analytics for millions of users.

You’ll work with TS/Node, GCP, Docker, and Kubernetes, continually optimize for reliability and scale, and drive automation with AI agents. This role emphasizes ownership, high judgement, and measurable impact across platforms.

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.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and own the APIs behind payments, subscriptions, auth, consumption tracking, 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 it correct after you've moved on
• Automate the parts of your role that shouldn't need a person, then go take on what that freed 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 the product is going

Skills

TS/Node backend

Cloud: GCP

Ownership of code

AI automation awareness

Observability & debugging

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

AI tooling

Job description

Speechify is seeking a Software Engineer, Platform to join our fully distributed team. You will design, build, and own the backend APIs powering payments, subscriptions, authentication, and analytics for millions of users.

You’ll work with TS/Node, GCP, Docker, and Kubernetes, continually optimize for reliability and scale, and drive automation with AI agents. This role emphasizes ownership, high judgement, and measurable impact across platforms.