Platform Backend Engineer (TS/Node) - Remote

Speechify; Los Angeles (CA); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Speechify in Los Angeles, CA is seeking a Platform Software Engineer to own the backend APIs powering payments, subscriptions, auth, and analytics across web and mobile clients. You will design, implement, and operate scalable services in TS/Node, focusing on reliability, cost-efficiency, and developer productivity.

The role rewards shipping, automation, and a distributed, async-first culture. You will collaborate with product, mobile, and web teams to keep backend architecture ahead of product

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 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

Cloud platforms (GCP)

CI/CD and automation

Docker

Kubernetes

Observability and logs

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Speechify in Los Angeles, CA is seeking a Platform Software Engineer to own the backend APIs powering payments, subscriptions, auth, and analytics across web and mobile clients. You will design, implement, and operate scalable services in TS/Node, focusing on reliability, cost-efficiency, and developer productivity.

The role rewards shipping, automation, and a distributed, async-first culture. You will collaborate with product, mobile, and web teams to keep backend architecture ahead of product