Senior Software Engineer, Core Experiences (Kotlin)

Speechify; Kirkland (WA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Asynchronous culture

Stock options

Remote-friendly team

Life-changing product

Job summary

Speechify is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join the Core Experiences Team. The role focuses on building and maintaining foundational services and SDKs that power Speechify’s product experience across platforms.

You’ll collaborate with product teams to scope projects, design end-to-end solutions, and ship cloud functions and backend services using Kotlin. Ideal candidates think in systems, move fast, and communicate well within a remote team.

Qualifications

• An Ideal Candidate Should Have: Systems thinking
• An Ideal Candidate Should Have: Speed
• An Ideal Candidate Should Have: Focus
• An Ideal Candidate Should Have: Collaboration
• Preferred Tech Stack: Kotlin Multiplatform (Java experience is OK)
• Preferred Tech Stack: Prior experience with GCP is a plus

Responsibilities

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

Skills

Systems thinking

Speed

Focus

Collaboration

Tools

Kotlin Multiplatform

GCP

Job description

Speechify is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join the Core Experiences Team. The role focuses on building and maintaining foundational services and SDKs that power Speechify’s product experience across platforms.

You’ll collaborate with product teams to scope projects, design end-to-end solutions, and ship cloud functions and backend services using Kotlin. Ideal candidates think in systems, move fast, and communicate well within a remote team.