Senior Software Engineer, Core Experiences — SDK & APIs

Speechify; Belfast City District; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Entrepreneurial team

Hands-off management

Impactful work

Asynchronous culture

Job summary

Speechify is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join the Core Experiences team in Belfast. You will design and build foundational services and SDKs powering Speechify across platforms, shaping APIs and scalable systems that enhance the user experience.

Collaborate across product, design, and engineering to ship efficient solutions using Kotlin Multiplatform and cloud services, with a focus on performance, reliability, and rapid feedback in a fast-growing startup.

Qualifications

• Systems thinking applied to end-to-end design and simple, reliable APIs.
• Ability to move quickly and decide what to ship now vs. later.
• Ability to stay focused in a fast-growth startup with distributed teams.
• Strong collaboration with designers, marketers, and PMs to align on solutions.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with Product Teams to scope projects and deliver cross-platform SDK solutions.
• Optimize functionality for faster loading and smarter parsing through better abstractions and algorithms.
• Ship cloud functions and backend services using Kotlin.

Skills

Systems thinking

Speed

Focus

Collaboration

Tools

Kotlin Multiplatform

GCP

Job description

Speechify is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join the Core Experiences team in Belfast. You will design and build foundational services and SDKs powering Speechify across platforms, shaping APIs and scalable systems that enhance the user experience.

Collaborate across product, design, and engineering to ship efficient solutions using Kotlin Multiplatform and cloud services, with a focus on performance, reliability, and rapid feedback in a fast-growing startup.