Platform Backend Engineer: Payments & TTS API

Speechify; United States; Remote; USD 130,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Speechify’s Platform team owns the backend powering the public TTS API, payments, subscriptions, auth, consumption tracking, and analytics for 50M+ users across iOS, Android, Mac, Chrome, and web. You design, build, and own APIs, improve performance, and automate repetitive tasks to scale with demand.

You’ll collaborate with product, mobile, and web teams to keep backend architecture ahead of the product roadmap, deploying with Docker and Kubernetes in a cloud-first environment.

Qualifications

• Proven backend experience in TS/Node.
• Direct experience with a cloud platform (GCP, AWS, or Azure).
• Habit of sharing work you used to own and a track record to show it.
• Ability to describe AI-augmented workflows and automation you run daily.
• Focus on validating results via logs, DB state, and actual requests.
• Judgment about what not to build and clear rationale for decisions.
• Prefers being corrected and learning over simply being right.
• Experience with Docker and containerized deployments preferred.
• Experience deploying high-availability apps on Kubernetes preferred.

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.
• Ensure changes are correct before shipping, and leave checks in place afterward.
• Automate parts of the role that shouldn’t need a person, then focus on higher-leverage work.
• 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.
• Collaborate with product, mobile, and web teams to keep backend architecture ahead of the product roadmap.

Skills

TS/Node

GCP

AWS/Azure

AI automation

Observability

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Cloud Platforms

Job description

Speechify’s Platform team owns the backend powering the public TTS API, payments, subscriptions, auth, consumption tracking, and analytics for 50M+ users across iOS, Android, Mac, Chrome, and web. You design, build, and own APIs, improve performance, and automate repetitive tasks to scale with demand.

You’ll collaborate with product, mobile, and web teams to keep backend architecture ahead of the product roadmap, deploying with Docker and Kubernetes in a cloud-first environment.