Software Engineer, Ios Core Product - Santa Cruz, Ca, Usa

Speechify; Philippines; On-site; PHP 937,000 - 1,562,000; Full time

Job summary

Speechify is seeking a Senior iOS Engineer to help grow the iOS core product in a fast-paced, fully distributed environment. You will lead major engineering and product decisions and ship production code for the Speechify iOS app, collaborating within a dedicated product team to shape the roadmap.

Ideal candidates think strategically, move quickly, and obsess over delivering exceptional user experiences. This role offers a high-growth, impact-driven environment with strong technical ownership

Qualifications

• Experience on products that scaled to a large user base.
• Led engineering the product from inception to traction.
• Customer obsession to provide the best possible experience.
• Product thinking to guide evolution and support internal teams.
• Speed in generating ideas and shipping what's feasible.

Responsibilities

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

Job description

Software Engineer, iOS Core Product - Santa Cruz, CA, USA

Salary: ₱140,000 monthly

Company: Speechify

Job Type: Full Time

Location: Santa Cruz, CA, USA

Job Description

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 App of the Day.

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

With the growth of our iOS app, being the #18 productivity app in the App Store category and also our recent recognition as Apple's 2025 Design Award for Inclusivity, we find the need for a Senior iOS Engineer to help us support the new user base as well as work on new and exciting projects to push our missing forward.

This is a key role and ideal for someone who thinks strategically, enjoys fast-paced environments, 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

• 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