Remote Backend Platform Engineer - TS/Node & Cloud APIs

The Briefed; Islamabad; Remote; PKR 33,287,000 - 47,157,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Autonomy and asynchronous work culture

Impactful AI and audio product work

Inclusive, diverse workplace

Opportunities to shape platform growth

Job summary

Speechify operates a fully distributed team and is seeking a backend engineer to design, build, and own the APIs behind payments, subscriptions, auth, and the public TTS API. You will work across platforms (iOS, Android, Mac, Chrome, Web) to improve reliability and latency.

Join a flat, fast-moving team that values autonomy, asynchronous collaboration, and scalable systems. You’ll automate repetitive work, contribute to B2B integrations, and shape the platform as Speechify grows to help millions

Qualifications

• Proven backend experience with modern TS/Node backends.
• Experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and familiarity with AWS/Azure.
• Demonstrated habit of sharing ownership and delivering measurable results.
• Ability to articulate AI agent-driven automation in daily workflows.
• Strong habit of validating results against logs, DB state, and real requests.
• Judgment to avoid unnecessary work and clearly justify tradeoffs.
• Openness to feedback and willingness to adjust approaches.
• Experience with containerized deployments and orchestration is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and own the APIs behind payments, subscriptions, auth, consumption tracking, and the public TTS API.
• Improve services you did not write to be faster, cheaper, and more reliable.
• Ensure correctness before shipping and implement post-release checks.
• Automate repetitive tasks to free up time for high-leverage work.
• Turn one-off work into repeatable patterns for the team.
• Design B2B and enterprise integrations built on top of Speechify.
• Collaborate with product, mobile, and web teams to keep backend architecture aligned with product direction.

Skills

Proven backend experience (TS/Node)

Cloud experience (GCP) + familiarity w

Ownership and code handoff experience

AI-driven automation workflow

Observability via logs and DB state

Discernment in scope & feature pruning

Humility and openness to feedback

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Speechify operates a fully distributed team and is seeking a backend engineer to design, build, and own the APIs behind payments, subscriptions, auth, and the public TTS API. You will work across platforms (iOS, Android, Mac, Chrome, Web) to improve reliability and latency.

Join a flat, fast-moving team that values autonomy, asynchronous collaboration, and scalable systems. You’ll automate repetitive work, contribute to B2B integrations, and shape the platform as Speechify grows to help millions