Remote Backend Engineer, Platform – Scale Payments & TTS

Speechify; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Autonomy

Innovation culture

Competitive pay

Global impact

Asynchronous work culture

AI & audio focus

Accessibility impact

Job summary

Speechify is seeking a backend engineer to own scalable APIs behind payments, subscriptions, auth, and our public TTS API. You’ll work across services, optimize latency, and help keep multi-client billing accurate in a fully distributed environment.

You’ll collaborate with product, mobile, and web teams to push architecture forward, while automating repetitive work and mentoring teammates, with a strong emphasis on reliability and observability.

Qualifications

• Backend experience with TypeScript/Node.js.
• Direct experience with GCP; working knowledge of AWS or Azure.
• Habit of sharing work and mentoring teammates.
• Daily setup with AI agents and automation.
• Ability to verify results via logs and database state.

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

GCP

AWS

Azure

Mentoring teammates

AI agents setup

Observability

Discretion in scope

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Speechify is seeking a backend engineer to own scalable APIs behind payments, subscriptions, auth, and our public TTS API. You’ll work across services, optimize latency, and help keep multi-client billing accurate in a fully distributed environment.

You’ll collaborate with product, mobile, and web teams to push architecture forward, while automating repetitive work and mentoring teammates, with a strong emphasis on reliability and observability.