Platform Backend Engineer (TS/Node) – Remote

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

Benefits offered by this job

Autonomy

Asynchronous work culture

Competitive compensation

Impactful work supporting dyslexia and

Diversity & Inclusion

Job summary

Speechify is seeking a Software Engineer for the Platform in Seattle to own backend systems that power payments, subscriptions, auth, and analytics across iOS, Android, Mac, Chrome, and web. You’ll improve latency, reliability, and scalability while shaping the API surface for external customers and internal teams.

You will work in a fully distributed environment with autonomous teams and a focus on high-availability architectures.

Qualifications

• Proven backend experience in TS/Node (required).
• Direct experience with GCP; working knowledge of AWS, Azure, or another cloud.
• Habit of sharing work you used to own and contributing to 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 logs, database state, the actual request — rather than 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 experience

AWS/Azure knowledge

Docker deployments

Kubernetes deployments

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Speechify is seeking a Software Engineer for the Platform in Seattle to own backend systems that power payments, subscriptions, auth, and analytics across iOS, Android, Mac, Chrome, and web. You’ll improve latency, reliability, and scalability while shaping the API surface for external customers and internal teams.

You will work in a fully distributed environment with autonomous teams and a focus on high-availability architectures.