Platform Backend Engineer | Remote & Distributed

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

Benefits offered by this job

Dynamic environment

Innovative team

Autonomy

Job summary

Speechify is a distributed, remote-first company building text-to-speech products used by millions. The Platform team owns the backend powering payments, subscriptions, auth, consumption tracking, and analytics across web, iOS, Android, Mac, Chrome, and more.

You’ll design and own APIs, optimize performance, and push architecture forward with a focus on reliability and scalability. The ideal candidate brings strong TS/Node backend experience, deep cloud expertise (GCP; AWS/Azure familiarity),

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 — rather than against a summary of it.
• 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, consumptiontracking, 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 itcorrect after you’ve moved on
• Automate the parts of your role that shouldn’t need a person, then go take on what thatfreed 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 theproduct is going

Skills

TypeScript

Node.js

GCP

AWS/Azure

Containerization

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Speechify is a distributed, remote-first company building text-to-speech products used by millions. The Platform team owns the backend powering payments, subscriptions, auth, consumption tracking, and analytics across web, iOS, Android, Mac, Chrome, and more.

You’ll design and own APIs, optimize performance, and push architecture forward with a focus on reliability and scalability. The ideal candidate brings strong TS/Node backend experience, deep cloud expertise (GCP; AWS/Azure familiarity),