Platform Backend Engineer - Payments, API & TTS (Remote)

Speechify Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Autonomy

Competitive compensation

Asynchronous work culture

Impactful product that helps people

Job summary

Speechify Inc. is seeking a senior backend engineer to design, build, and own the APIs behind payments, subscriptions, auth, and our public TTS API, serving millions of users across web, iOS, Android, Mac, and Chrome.

You'll work with product, mobile, and web teams to keep infrastructure ahead of product needs, automate repetitive tasks, and craft reliable systems. We value pragmatic judgment, a bias for action, and a collaborative, asynchronous culture that enables personal impact at scale.

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.

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

Docker

Kubernetes

Tools

AWS

Azure

Job description

Speechify Inc. is seeking a senior backend engineer to design, build, and own the APIs behind payments, subscriptions, auth, and our public TTS API, serving millions of users across web, iOS, Android, Mac, and Chrome.

You'll work with product, mobile, and web teams to keep infrastructure ahead of product needs, automate repetitive tasks, and craft reliable systems. We value pragmatic judgment, a bias for action, and a collaborative, asynchronous culture that enables personal impact at scale.