Platform Backend Engineer (TS/Node, GCP)

Speechify; Tacoma, Northern (WA, KY); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Speechify is seeking a Platform Software Engineer to own the backend systems powering payments, subscriptions, auth, consumption tracking, and the analytics platform across our distributed product suite.

You will design APIs, improve reliability, and collaborate with product, mobile, and web teams to keep the architecture ahead of product needs. The role emphasizes ownership, automation, and high-availability considerations.

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, 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

GCP

AWS

Azure

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Speechify is seeking a Platform Software Engineer to own the backend systems powering payments, subscriptions, auth, consumption tracking, and the analytics platform across our distributed product suite.

You will design APIs, improve reliability, and collaborate with product, mobile, and web teams to keep the architecture ahead of product needs. The role emphasizes ownership, automation, and high-availability considerations.