Remote Backend Platform Engineer, Payments & APIs

Speechify; United States; A distancia; USD 30.000 - 120.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Autonomy

Competitive compensation

Stock options

Asynchronous work culture

Impactful product

Descripción de la vacante

Speechify is hiring for a backend-focused role on the Platform team. You’ll own APIs for payments, subscriptions, auth, and analytics, and you’ll drive performance, reliability, and automation across multi-client systems.

You’ll work with product, mobile, and web to keep backend architecture ahead of where the product is going, with an emphasis on scalable, fault-tolerant design in a distributed environment.

Formación

• Proven backend experience in TS/Node (required).
• Direct experience with GCP; working knowledge of AWS/Azure or another cloud.
• A habit of sharing work and creating reusable components.
• A daily setup with AI agents and clear review processes.
• Ability to verify results via logs, DB state and real requests.
• Discernment to drop unnecessary builds and justify decisions.
• Preference for being coached and learning from errors.
• Nice-to-have: Docker and Kubernetes deployments.

Responsabilidades

• Design, build, and own APIs behind payments, subscriptions, auth, and analytics.
• Improve existing services to be faster, cheaper, and more reliable.
• Validate changes with end-to-end tests and monitoring before shipping.
• Automate repetitive tasks and scale workflow efficiency.
• Replicate successful work across the team for reuse.
• Design B2B integrations and collaborate with product, mobile, and web teams.

Conocimientos

TS/Node backend

GCP

Cloud platforms

Docker

Kubernetes

Code review

Performance budgeting

Herramientas

Docker

Kubernetes

GCP

AWS

Azure

Descripción del empleo

Speechify is hiring for a backend-focused role on the Platform team. You’ll own APIs for payments, subscriptions, auth, and analytics, and you’ll drive performance, reliability, and automation across multi-client systems.

You’ll work with product, mobile, and web to keep backend architecture ahead of where the product is going, with an emphasis on scalable, fault-tolerant design in a distributed environment.