Platform Backend Engineer (Remote) | TS/Node

Speechify; Santa Cruz (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Dynamic product impact

Autonomy and ownership

Asynchronous work culture

Competitive compensation

Job summary

Speechify is seeking a Software Engineer for the Platform in Santa Cruz, CA. You will own backend services including payments, subscriptions, auth, and the public TTS API, serving millions across iOS, Android, Mac, Chrome, and web.

The ideal candidate has proven TS/Node backend experience, cloud skills (GCP, AWS/Azure), and a knack for building reliable, scalable systems. You’ll work with product teams to advance architecture while keeping deployments automated and robust.

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.
• 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 backend

GCP

Cloud: AWS/Azure

Docker

Kubernetes

AI agents setup

Observability/logs

High availability

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

GCP

AWS

Azure

Job description

Speechify is seeking a Software Engineer for the Platform in Santa Cruz, CA. You will own backend services including payments, subscriptions, auth, and the public TTS API, serving millions across iOS, Android, Mac, Chrome, and web.

The ideal candidate has proven TS/Node backend experience, cloud skills (GCP, AWS/Azure), and a knack for building reliable, scalable systems. You’ll work with product teams to advance architecture while keeping deployments automated and robust.