Software Engineer, Platform - Yogyakarta, Indonesia

Speechify; United States; Remote; USD 130,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Speechify’s Platform team owns the backend powering the public TTS API, payments, subscriptions, auth, consumption tracking, and analytics for 50M+ users across iOS, Android, Mac, Chrome, and web. You design, build, and own APIs, improve performance, and automate repetitive tasks to scale with demand.

You’ll collaborate with product, mobile, and web teams to keep backend architecture ahead of the product roadmap, deploying with Docker and Kubernetes in a cloud-first environment.

Qualifications

• Proven backend experience in TS/Node.
• Direct experience with a cloud platform (GCP, AWS, or Azure).
• Habit of sharing work you used to own and a track record to show it.
• Ability to describe AI-augmented workflows and automation you run daily.
• Focus on validating results via logs, DB state, and actual requests.
• Judgment about what not to build and clear rationale for decisions.
• Prefers being corrected and learning over simply being right.
• Experience with Docker and containerized deployments preferred.
• Experience deploying high-availability apps on Kubernetes preferred.

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.
• Ensure changes are correct before shipping, and leave checks in place afterward.
• Automate parts of the role that shouldn’t need a person, then focus on higher-leverage work.
• 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.
• Collaborate with product, mobile, and web teams to keep backend architecture ahead of the product roadmap.

Skills

TS/Node

GCP

AWS/Azure

AI automation

Observability

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Cloud Platforms

Job description

Overview

The Platform team owns the backend behind everything Speechify ships: the public TTS API,payments, subscriptions, auth, consumption tracking, and analytics — serving over 50million users across iOS, Android, Mac, Chrome, and web.

These are systems where correctness compounds. Subscription state has to stay consistentacross five clients and two app-store billing systems that each go quiet at the worst moment.Consumption metering has to be exact enough to bill on and cheap enough to run at ourrequest volume. The public TTS API has external customers with their own productsdepending on our latency and uptime. None of this degrades gracefully — it is either right, orsomeone gets charged twice.

The job is to make your own job smaller. Every system you own here should need less ofyou a year from now than it did the day you took it, and the reward for that is a larger one.That is the entire growth path on this team — there is no separate ladder, and no ceilingexcept the one you stop raising. We are a flat organization: people become leaders here bytaking scope and being right about it, fast.

What Yo u’ ll Do

• 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

An Ideal Candidate Should Have

• 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 itcreated
• 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 actualrequest — 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

Interview process

Several technical interviews plus a take-home assessment on a real codebase. We aim tofinish within a week.

The assessment runs in two stages: you’ll submit, get real feedback from an engineer on thisteam, and have time to act on it. Use the tools you use every day. You’ll be asked to walkthrough your reasoning, so bring it.

What We Offer

• A dynamic environment where your contributions shape the company and its products
• A team that values innovation, intuition, and drive
• Autonomy, fostering focus and creativity
• The opportunity to have a significant impact in a revolutionary industry
• Competitive compensation, a welcoming atmosphere, and a commitment to an exceptional asynchronous work culture
• The privilege of working on a product that changes lives, particularly for those with learning differences like dyslexia, ADD, and more
• An active role at the intersection of artificial intelligence and audio – a rapidly evolving tech domain

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.