Backend API Engineer - Payments, Subscriptions & TTS

Speechify; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Dynamic, impactful workplace

Innovation-driven culture

Autonomy and ownership

Asynchronous work environment

Competitive compensation

Job summary

Speechify is seeking a backend engineering leader to design, build, and own the APIs behind payments, subscriptions, auth, and the public TTS API. You will optimize services you didn’t write, while driving automation and reliable deployment patterns across cloud platforms.

You will work with product, mobile, and web teams to keep our backend architecture ahead of where the product is going, balancing performance and cost as we scale to millions of users.

Qualifications

• Proven backend experience in TS/Node (required).
• Direct experience with GCP; working knowledge of AWS, Azure, or another cloud.
• A habit of giving away work you used to own, and something to show for the room it created.
• A daily working setup with AI agents you can describe in detail — what runs unattended, what you review, and where you’ve decided it doesn’t get to act alone.
• The instinct to check a result against the system itself — logs, database state, the actual request.
• Judgment about what not to build, and the ability to say plainly why you dropped it.
• A preference for being corrected over being right.
• Preferred: Docker and containerized deployments.
• Preferred: deploying high-availability applications on Kubernetes.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and own the APIs behind payments, subscriptions, auth, consumption tracking, and our public TTS API.
• Take on services you didn’t write and make them faster, cheaper, and harder to break.
• Establish that a change is correct before it ships, and leave behind the checks that keep it correct after you’ve moved on.
• Automate the parts of your role that shouldn’t need a person, then go take on what that freed you up for.
• Turn work you’ve done once into work the whole team can repeat.
• Design B2B and enterprise integrations for customers building on top of us.
• Work with product, mobile, and web to keep backend architecture ahead of where the product is going.

Skills

TS/Node

GCP experience

Cloud knowledge

Ownership transfer

AI agent setup

Observability

Pragmatic judgement

Feedback oriented

Docker

Kubernetes

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Speechify is seeking a backend engineering leader to design, build, and own the APIs behind payments, subscriptions, auth, and the public TTS API. You will optimize services you didn’t write, while driving automation and reliable deployment patterns across cloud platforms.

You will work with product, mobile, and web teams to keep our backend architecture ahead of where the product is going, balancing performance and cost as we scale to millions of users.