Senior Software Engineer, Core Experiences (Kotlin/MP) Remote

Speechify; New Haven (CT); On-site; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Speechify is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join our Core Experiences Team. You’ll design APIs and scalable systems that power experiences across platforms, balancing product needs with infrastructure simplicity.

Collaborate with product teams, ship Kotlin-based backend services, and optimize performance for faster loading and smarter parsing. This role offers a fast-growing, collaborative start-up environment and the chance to impact millions of users.

Qualifications

• Design clear, reliable APIs and simple systems that power the user experience.
• Collaborate with product teams to scope projects and deliver cross-platform SDKs.
• Ship cloud functions and backend services using Kotlin.

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 our Core Experiences Team. You’ll design APIs and scalable systems that power experiences across platforms, balancing product needs with infrastructure simplicity.

Collaborate with product teams, ship Kotlin-based backend services, and optimize performance for faster loading and smarter parsing. This role offers a fast-growing, collaborative start-up environment and the chance to impact millions of users.