Platform Backend Engineer — TS/Node, Cloud-native

Speechify; Salt Lake City, Northern (UT, KY); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Speechify, a fully distributed company, is looking for a Software Engineer, Platform, to own the backend powering payments, subscriptions, auth, and analytics used by millions of users across iOS, Android, Mac, Chrome, and web. The role is remote within the United States, with Salt Lake City, UT as a stated location for reference.

You will design, build, and own the APIs behind our public TTS API and related services, ship improvements, and collaborate with product, mobile, and web teams to keep

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

TS/Node backend

GCP

AWS / Azure

Cloud architecture

AI-driven automation

Ability to simplify

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Speechify, a fully distributed company, is looking for a Software Engineer, Platform, to own the backend powering payments, subscriptions, auth, and analytics used by millions of users across iOS, Android, Mac, Chrome, and web. The role is remote within the United States, with Salt Lake City, UT as a stated location for reference.

You will design, build, and own the APIs behind our public TTS API and related services, ship improvements, and collaborate with product, mobile, and web teams to keep