Software Engineer, iOS Core Product - Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Speechify; City of Edinburgh; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Opportunity for significant impact

Supportive team culture

Work in the intersection of AI and Audio

Job summary

Speechify is seeking a Senior iOS Engineer to lead engineering decisions and actively ship production code for their iOS application. The ideal candidate will have experience in rapidly growing products and be customer-obsessed, ensuring the best possible user experience. This role offers a competitive salary and the chance to work on impactful technology for millions of users, supporting people with learning differences worldwide in a fast-growing, inclusive environment.

Qualifications

• Experience in products that scaled to a large user base.
• Track record of working on products from inception to traction.
• Customer obsession and focus on user experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead key engineering and product decisions.
• Ship production code for the Speechify iOS app.
• Participate in product discussions and shape the product roadmap.

Skills

Swift

SwiftUI

Multithreading Programming

CI/CD infrastructure

Fastlane

Git

Job description

Overview

The mission of Speechify is to make sure that reading is never a barrier to learning. Over 50 million people use Speechify’s text-to-speech products to turn PDFs, books, Google Docs, news articles, websites into audio, so they can read faster, read more, and remember more. Speechify’s products include its iOS app, Android App, Mac App, Chrome Extension, and Web App. Speechify is a distributed company with no office, and its team includes frontend and backend engineers, AI research scientists, and others from leading tech companies and universities.

With growth of our iOS app and recognition as an inclusive design award recipient, we are looking for a Senior iOS Engineer to help support the new user base and work on exciting projects.

What You’ll Do

• Opportunity to lead key engineering and product decisions
• Actively shipping production code for the Speechify iOS app
• Work within a dedicated product team
• Participate in product discussions to shape the product roadmap
• Maintain and enhance the existing complex app architecture

An Ideal Candidate Should Have

• Experience. You\'ve worked on products that scaled to a large user base
• Track record. You have worked on various products from inception to decent traction. You have been responsible for engineering the product
• Customer obsession. We expect every team member whose responsibilities directly impact customers to be constantly obsessed about providing the best possible experience
• Product thinking. You make thoughtful decisions about the evolution of your product and support internal teams and designers into taking the right direction
• Speed. You work quickly to generate ideas and know how to decide which things can ship now and what things need time
• Focus. We’re a high-growth startup with a busy, remote team. You know how and when to engage or be heads down
• Technical skills. Swift, SwiftUI

Technical Requirements

• Swift Programming Language
• SwiftUI experience
• Experience in Multithreading Programming
• Working with CI/CD infrastructure
• Experience with Fastlane
• SOLID principles, the ability to write every single class according to SOLID
• Experience with Git and understanding of different Git strategies

What We offer

• A fast-growing environment where you can help shape the company and product
• An entrepreneurial crew that supports risk, intuition, and hustle
• The opportunity to make a big impact in a transformative industry
• A competitive salary, a collegiate atmosphere, and a commitment to building a great asynchronous culture
• Work on a product that millions of people use and where daily feedback includes users sharing that they cried when they first found the product because it was so impactful on their lives
• Support people with learning differences like Dyslexia, ADD, Low Vision, Concussions, Autism, and Second Language Learners, and give reading superpowers to professionals all over the world
• Work in one of the fastest growing sectors of tech: Intersection of Artificial Intelligence and Audio

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Speechify is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Speechify does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status.