Platform Backend Engineer - Stock & Scale Payments & TTS

Speechify; United States; Remote; USD 30,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Autonomy

Asynchronous work culture

Stock options

Competitive compensation

Impactful product

Job summary

Speechify is seeking a backend engineer to own APIs behind payments, subscriptions, auth, and the public TTS API, building scalable services for millions of users across platforms. You will optimize performance, reduce costs, and ensure correctness across distributed systems; ideal candidates have TS/Node experience, cloud expertise, and a demonstrated ability to automate and improve existing code.

Join a fully distributed team with high autonomy and an emphasis on asynchronous collaboration, as

Qualifications

• Proven backend experience in TS/Node (required).
• Direct experience with GCP; working knowledge of AWS, Azure, or another cloud.
• 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, 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 experience

AI agents workflow

Ability to reason with system logs

Tools

GCP

AWS

Azure

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Speechify is seeking a backend engineer to own APIs behind payments, subscriptions, auth, and the public TTS API, building scalable services for millions of users across platforms. You will optimize performance, reduce costs, and ensure correctness across distributed systems; ideal candidates have TS/Node experience, cloud expertise, and a demonstrated ability to automate and improve existing code.

Join a fully distributed team with high autonomy and an emphasis on asynchronous collaboration, as