Senior Backend Engineer (TS/Node) — Remote, AI-Driven TTS

Speechify; United States; Remote; USD 30,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Autonomy

Competitive pay

Asynchronous culture

Impactful work

Diverse team

Job summary

Speechify, a 100% distributed company with no offices, is seeking a backend engineer to own critical APIs behind payments, subscriptions, and the public TTS surface. You will design, build, and optimize services that must scale to millions of users across web, iOS, Android, and extensions.

Ideal candidates have strong TS/Node experience, cloud know-how, and a habit of shipping correct, maintainable code. Expect autonomous work, fast feedback, and meaningful impact in a growing AI-driven product.

Qualifications

• Proven backend experience in TS/Node.
• 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.
• The instinct to check a result against logs, database state, the actual request.
• Judgment about what not to build and 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

Node.js

TypeScript

GCP

AWS/Azure experience

Docker

Kubernetes

AI agent workflows

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Speechify, a 100% distributed company with no offices, is seeking a backend engineer to own critical APIs behind payments, subscriptions, and the public TTS surface. You will design, build, and optimize services that must scale to millions of users across web, iOS, Android, and extensions.

Ideal candidates have strong TS/Node experience, cloud know-how, and a habit of shipping correct, maintainable code. Expect autonomous work, fast feedback, and meaningful impact in a growing AI-driven product.