Remote Backend Engineer (TS/Node) — Payments & TTS API

Speechify Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 30,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Autonomy

Competitive compensation

Impactful work

Asynchronous culture

Job summary

Speechify, a distributed reading platform, is hiring a backend engineer to own APIs for payments, subscriptions, auth, and analytics across iOS, Android, Mac, Chrome, and web.

You will optimize services for speed, reliability, and cost, and work with product, mobile, and web teams to keep the backend ahead of product direction. Expect a collaborative, autonomous role in a global remote setup.

Qualifications

• Proven backend experience with TS/Node.
• Direct experience with GCP; working knowledge of AWS/Azure.
• Habit of handing off work and creating clear ownership.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and own the APIs behind payments, subscriptions, auth, and analytics.
• Improve services to be faster, cheaper, and more reliable.
• Ensure correctness of changes with checks before shipping and post-release verification.
• Automate repetitive tasks and expand scope by leveraging automation.
• Replicate proven work for team-wide reuse.
• Design B2B and enterprise integrations for customers.
• Collaborate with product, mobile, and web teams to keep backend ahead of product.

Skills

TS/Node backend

GCP

Cloud awareness

AI agent usage

Logs & debugging

Docker

Kubernetes

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Cloud platforms

Job description

Speechify, a distributed reading platform, is hiring a backend engineer to own APIs for payments, subscriptions, auth, and analytics across iOS, Android, Mac, Chrome, and web.

You will optimize services for speed, reliability, and cost, and work with product, mobile, and web teams to keep the backend ahead of product direction. Expect a collaborative, autonomous role in a global remote setup.