Cloud And Platform Software Engineer

Over 50 million people use Speechify’s text-to-speech products to turn whatever they’re reading – PDFs, books, Google Docs, news articles, websites – into audio, so they can read faster, read more, and remember more. Speechify’s text-to-speech reading products include its iOS app, Android App, Mac App, Chrome Extension, and Web App. Google recently named Speechify the Chrome Extension of the Year and Apple named Speechify its 2025 Design Award winner for Inclusivity.

Today, nearly 200 people around the globe work on Speechify in a 100% distributed setting – Speechify has no office. These include frontend and backend engineers, AI research scientists, and others from Amazon, Microsoft, and Google, leading PhD programs like Stanford, high growth startups like Stripe, Vercel, Bolt, and many founders of their own companies.

The responsibilities of our Platform team include building and maintaining all backend services, including, but not limited to, payments, analytics, subscriptions, new products, text to speech, and external APIs.

This is a key role and ideal for someone who thinks strategically, enjoys fast-paced environments, is passionate about making product decisions, and has experience building great user experiences that delight users.

We are a flat organization that allows anyone to become a leader by showing excellent technical skills and delivering results consistently and fast. Design, develop, and maintain robust APIs including public TTS API, internal APIs like Payment, Subscription, Auth and Consumption Tracking, ensuring they meet business and scalability requirements

Oversee the full backend API landscape, enhancing and optimizing for performance and maintainability

Work closely with cross-functional teams to align backend architecture with overall product strategy and user experience

Proven experience in backend development: TS/Node (required)

Direct experience with GCP and knowledge of AWS, Azure, or other cloud providers

Efficiency in ideation and implementation, prioritizing tasks based on urgency and impact

Experience with Docker and containerized deployments

Preferred: Proficiency in deploying high availability applications on Kubernetes

A dynamic environment where your contributions shape the company and its products

A team that values innovation, intuition, and drive

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

The Italy Based Salary range for this role is: 30,000-80,000 USD/Year + Bonus + Stock depending on experience.

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