Platform Backend Engineer – Payments, Subscriptions & APIs

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

Benefits offered by this job

Autonomy

Competitive compensation

Asynchronous work culture

Impactful product

Diversity and inclusion

Job summary

Speechify’s Platform team owns the backend behind everything Speechify ships: the public TTS API, payments, subscriptions, auth, consumption tracking, and analytics — serving over 50 million users across iOS, Android, Mac, Chrome, and web.

The role focuses on designing, building, and owning APIs for payments, subscriptions, and the public TTS API, while making existing services faster, cheaper, and more reliable.

Qualifications

• Proven backend experience with TypeScript/Node.
• Experience with cloud platforms (GCP, AWS, Azure).
• Habit of handing off work and claiming ownership.
• Ability to describe AI agent-based workflows and unattended processes.
• Ability to validate results via logs and DB state.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and own the APIs behind payments, subscriptions, auth, consumption tracking, and the public TTS API.
• Improve and stabilize services you inherit to be faster, cheaper, and harder to break.
• Ensure correctness before shipping and build lasting checks for future maintenance.
• Automate repetitive tasks and scale up what frees you to do higher-impact work.
• Turn one-off work into repeatable processes for the team.
• Design B2B and enterprise integrations.
• Collaborate with product, mobile, and web teams to keep backend architecture ahead.

Skills

TS/Node backend

Cloud knowledge

Automation mindset

Observability

Decision making

Feedback culture

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS-like tools

Job description

Speechify’s Platform team owns the backend behind everything Speechify ships: the public TTS API, payments, subscriptions, auth, consumption tracking, and analytics — serving over 50 million users across iOS, Android, Mac, Chrome, and web.

The role focuses on designing, building, and owning APIs for payments, subscriptions, and the public TTS API, while making existing services faster, cheaper, and more reliable.