Software Engineer, Platform - Europe

Snaphunt; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

A text-to-speech application seeks a backend developer to design and maintain APIs for their innovative product. Candidates should have experience with cloud services like GCP and AWS, and familiarity with containers is a plus. This role offers a dynamic work environment focused on user empowerment and significant contributions to an important mission.

Benefits

Competitive compensation

Asynchronous work culture

Impactful work on user empowerment

Qualifications

• Experience with cloud providers like GCP, AWS, or Azure is required.
• Ability to prioritize tasks based on urgency and impact.
• Optional: Experience in deploying high availability applications.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain robust backend APIs.
• Enhance and optimize API performance and maintainability.
• Collaborate on B2B solutions for enterprise clients.

Skills

Direct experience with GCP

Knowledge of AWS

Efficiency in ideation

Docker experience

Kubernetes proficiency

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The Job

Mission

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 whatever they’re reading – PDFs, books, Google Docs, news articles, websites – into audio, so they can read faster, read more, and remember more. Speechify’s text-to-speech reading products include its iOS app, Android App, Mac App, Chrome Extension, and Web App. Google recently named Speechify the Chrome Extension of the Year and Apple named Speechify its 2025 Design Award winner for Inclusivity.

Today, nearly 200 people around the globe work on Speechify in a 100% distributed setting – Speechify has no office. These include frontend and backend engineers, AI research scientists, and others from Amazon, Microsoft, and Google, leading PhD programs like Stanford, high growth startups like Stripe, Vercel, Bolt, and many founders of their own companies.

Overview

The responsibilities of our Platform team include building and maintaining all backend services, including, but not limited to, payments, analytics, subscriptions, new products, text to speech, and external APIs.

This is a key role and ideal for someone who thinks strategically, enjoys fast-paced environments, is passionate about making product decisions, and has experience building great user experiences that delight users.

We are a flat organization that allows anyone to become a leader by showing excellent technical skills and delivering results consistently and fast. Work ethic, solid communication skills, and obsession with winning are paramount.

Our interview process involves several technical interviews and we aim to complete them within 1 week.

What You’ll Do

• Design, develop, and maintain robust APIs including public TTS API, internal APIs like Payment, Subscription, Auth and Consumption Tracking, ensuring they meet business and scalability requirements
• Oversee the full backend API landscape, enhancing and optimizing for performance and maintainability
• Collaborate on B2B solutions, focusing on customization and integration needs for enterprise clients
• Work closely with cross-functional teams to align backend architecture with overall product strategy and user experience

What We Offer

• A dynamic environment where your contributions shape the company and its products
• A team that values innovation, intuition, and drive
• Autonomy, fostering focus and creativity
• The opportunity to have a significant impact in a revolutionary industry
• Competitive compensation, a welcoming atmosphere, and a commitment to an exceptional asynchronous work culture
• The privilege of working on a product that changes lives, particularly for those with learning differences like dyslexia, ADD, and more
• An active role at the intersection of artificial intelligence and audio – a rapidly evolving tech domain

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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.

The Profile

An Ideal Candidate Should Have

• Direct experience with GCP and knowledge of AWS, Azure, or other cloud providers
• Efficiency in ideation and implementation, prioritizing tasks based on urgency and impact
• Preferred: Experience with Docker and containerized deployments
• Preferred: Proficiency in deploying high availability applications on Kubernetes

The Employer

Our client is a text-to-speech app that makes it easy for the world to access information. 20+ million people use their Google Chrome extension, web app, iOS app, and Android app. their mission is to make sure that reading is never a barrier to learning.

Our client amazing users are students, professionals, and productivity lovers. Many of them have learning differences like dyslexia and ADHD, while many just want to read faster and listen on the go. With our client you can turn any book, document, or website into audio, and listen while you’re in the car, doing laundry, walking your dog, making dinner, working out, skydiving—whatever your daily routine is! Our client also powers Medium, the Star Tribune, The Direct, and more. Easily add text-to-speech to your website.

Our client has grown to employ over 100 team members spread out across the globe in just a few short years. Our client's proud of the incredible team with members who were previously leaders and senior engineers at companies like Snapchat, Apple, Spotify, Amazon & Uber. They all love and prioritize ownership, delivering value with speed, learning as much as they can and making their users feel empowered.