Remote Platform Backend Engineer (TS/Node)

Speechify; Memphis, Northern (TN, KY); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Dynamic, impactful work

Autonomy and ownership

Competitive compensation

Stock options

Flexible async culture

Mission-driven product helping dyslexy

Job summary

Speechify is seeking a Platform Software Engineer to own backend systems powering payments, subscriptions, auth, and analytics. You’ll optimize cross-client state and ensure reliable, scalable API delivery across web, iOS, Android, and our Chrome extension.

You’ll work with a distributed team, driving architectural improvements and high-availability deployments. You’ll partner with product, mobile, and web teams to keep backend architecture ahead of the product roadmap, and you’ll automate

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 — rather than against 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, consumption tracking, 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 backend

GCP

Cloud platforms

AI agent setup

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Speechify is seeking a Platform Software Engineer to own backend systems powering payments, subscriptions, auth, and analytics. You’ll optimize cross-client state and ensure reliable, scalable API delivery across web, iOS, Android, and our Chrome extension.

You’ll work with a distributed team, driving architectural improvements and high-availability deployments. You’ll partner with product, mobile, and web teams to keep backend architecture ahead of the product roadmap, and you’ll automate