Senior Software Engineer, Core Experiences - College Station, USA

Speechify; College Station (TX); Remote; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading tech firm is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to enhance their Core Experiences Team in College Station. This role focuses on developing and optimizing SDKs, collaborating across teams, and shipping cloud functions using Kotlin. The ideal candidate has strong systems thinking and the ability to work quickly in a fast-paced environment. This position offers a competitive salary and the chance to work on impactful audio products.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Friendly and laid-back atmosphere

Opportunity for significant impact

Focus on asynchronous culture

Qualifications

• Strong systems thinking for end-to-end design and simplicity.
• Ability to generate ideas rapidly and prioritize tasks effectively.
• Experience working in a busy and fast-paced remote environment.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with product teams to scope and deliver solutions.
• Optimize functionality for faster performance.
• Develop cloud functions and backend services using Kotlin.

Skills

Systems thinking

Speed

Focus

Collaboration

Tools

Kotlin Multiplatform

GCP

Job description

Senior Software Engineer, Core Experiences - College Station, USA

Location: College Station, USA

Overview

We're looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our Core Experiences Team. This team builds and maintains the foundational services and SDKs that power Speechify’s product experience across platforms. It's a critical role for someone who enjoys working at the intersection of product and infrastructure, thinks strategically, and is passionate about designing clear, reliable APIs and simple systems that directly enhance the user experience.

Mission Speechify is the easiest way to listen to the world’s information. Articles on the web, documents in the cloud, books on your phone. We absorb it all and let you listen to it at your desk, on the go, at your own speed, and with tools that make learning easier, deeper, and faster. What streaming services have done for audio entertainment, we’re doing for audio information. We’re #1 in our category, and experiencing exponential growth.

What You’ll Do

• Collaborate with Speechify’s Product Teams to scope projects, reduce scope to get faster customer feedback, navigate integration/UX tradeoffs relevant to different product teams, and deliver solutions via our cross-platform SDK
• Optimize existing functionality to ship faster loading and more intelligent parsing by designing efficient abstractions and improving algorithms
• Ship cloud functions, lightweight backend services, and jobs using Kotlin

An Ideal Candidate Should Have

• Systems thinking: you know that optimizing a system requires end-to-end design, and you believe simplicity is valuable
• Speed: you work quickly to generate ideas and options and know how to decide what can ship now and what requires more time
• Focus: in a high-growth startup with a busy, remote team, you know how and when to engage or be heads down
• Collaboration: you know how to inspire, collaborate with, and negotiate with opinionated designers, marketers, and PMs
• Preferred Tech Stack:
  • Kotlin Multiplatform (Java experience is OK but role is Kotlin Multiplatform)
  • Prior experience with GCP is a plus

What We Offer

• A fast-growing environment where you can help shape the company and product
• An entrepreneurial-minded team that supports risk, intuition, and hustle
• A hands-off management approach so you can focus and do your best work
• An opportunity to make a big impact in a transformative industry
• Competitive salaries, a friendly and laid-back atmosphere, and a commitment to building a great asynchronous culture
• Opportunity to work on a life-changing product that millions use
• Build products that directly impact and support people with learning differences
• Work in one of the fastest growing sectors of tech: the intersection of artificial intelligence and audio

Salary: The United States Based salary range for this role is 140,000-200,000 USD/year + Bonus + Stock depending on experience

How to Apply

Think you’re a good fit for this job? Tell us more about yourself and why you’re interested in the role when you apply. Include links to your portfolio and LinkedIn.

Equal Opportunity and Diversity

Speechify is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Speechify does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status.