Senior Backend Platform Engineer – Payments & TTS API

Speechify; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Asynchronous work culture

Impactful product

Job summary

Speechify is seeking a backend-focused software engineer to own APIs for payments, subscriptions, auth, and the TTS service. You will optimize services, reduce downtime, and design containerized deployments with a focus on scale and reliability.

You’ll collaborate with product, mobile, and web teams to keep backend architecture ahead of where the product is headed, and you’ll automate repetitive work to free time for higher-impact challenges.

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, consumptiontracking, 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 itcorrect after you’ve moved on
• Automate the parts of your role that shouldn’t need a person, then go take on what thatfreed 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 theproduct is going

Skills

TypeScript/Node.js

GCP

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Speechify is seeking a backend-focused software engineer to own APIs for payments, subscriptions, auth, and the TTS service. You will optimize services, reduce downtime, and design containerized deployments with a focus on scale and reliability.

You’ll collaborate with product, mobile, and web teams to keep backend architecture ahead of where the product is headed, and you’ll automate repetitive work to free time for higher-impact challenges.