Remote Backend Engineer - Platform & API (TS/Node, Cloud)

Speechify; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Dynamic work environment

Autonomy

Competitive compensation

Impactful work

Asynchronous culture

Dyslexia-friendly product mission

Job summary

Speechify is hiring a Platform Software Engineer in Brighton to own backend services behind payments, subscriptions, and the public TTS API. You will improve performance, reliability, and scalability across multiple clients including web and mobile.

You’ll collaborate with product, mobile, and web teams to advance the platform, automate repetitive work, and push high-availability deployments on Kubernetes. This role emphasizes thoughtful design, strong judgment, and rapid iteration in a

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.
• 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, 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

GCP

Cloud platforms

AI automation

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Speechify is hiring a Platform Software Engineer in Brighton to own backend services behind payments, subscriptions, and the public TTS API. You will improve performance, reliability, and scalability across multiple clients including web and mobile.

You’ll collaborate with product, mobile, and web teams to advance the platform, automate repetitive work, and push high-availability deployments on Kubernetes. This role emphasizes thoughtful design, strong judgment, and rapid iteration in a