Remote Platform Backend Engineer

Speechify; Bloomington, Northern (IN, KY); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Speechify is seeking a Platform Backend Engineer to design, build, and own our payments, subscriptions, auth, and TTS APIs across distributed systems. You will optimize services you inherit, making them faster, cheaper, and more reliable while maintaining strict correctness and billing integrity.

The role emphasizes autonomy, collaboration, and hands-on leadership in a no-office, remote environment. You should be proficient in TS/Node, with strong cloud experience (GCP preferred) and a track

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.
• Judgment about what not to build, and the ability to say plainly why you dropped it.
• A preference for being corrected over being right.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and own the APIs behind payments, subscriptions, auth, consumption tracking, and our public TTS API.
• Take on services you didn't write and make them faster, cheaper, and harder to break.

Skills

TS/Node backend

Cloud platforms (GCP/AWS/Azure)

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Speechify is seeking a Platform Backend Engineer to design, build, and own our payments, subscriptions, auth, and TTS APIs across distributed systems. You will optimize services you inherit, making them faster, cheaper, and more reliable while maintaining strict correctness and billing integrity.

The role emphasizes autonomy, collaboration, and hands-on leadership in a no-office, remote environment. You should be proficient in TS/Node, with strong cloud experience (GCP preferred) and a track