Remote Platform Engineer — Backend APIs & TTS

Speechify; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Autonomy

Asynchronous work culture

Competitive compensation

Impact in AI/audio domain

Job summary

Speechify, a fully distributed company with no office, is seeking a backend engineer to own and evolve the APIs behind payments, subscriptions, and the TTS platform. You will optimize cross-client consistency, monetization, and analytics across iOS, Android, Mac, web, and extensions.

You will shape the backend with a focus on reliability, scalability, and automation, collaborating with product, mobile, and web teams to stay ahead of product needs.

Qualifications

• Proven backend experience in TS/Node (required).
• Direct experience with GCP; working knowledge of AWS, Azure, or another cloud.
• Habit of giving away work you used to own, and something to show for the room it created.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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 experience

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS/Azure

Tools

APIs

Job description

Speechify, a fully distributed company with no office, is seeking a backend engineer to own and evolve the APIs behind payments, subscriptions, and the TTS platform. You will optimize cross-client consistency, monetization, and analytics across iOS, Android, Mac, web, and extensions.

You will shape the backend with a focus on reliability, scalability, and automation, collaborating with product, mobile, and web teams to stay ahead of product needs.