Senior Software Engineer, Core Experiences - Arlington, VA, USA

Speechify is the easiest way to listen to the world’s information, and they are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join their Core Experiences Team. This role focuses on building and maintaining foundational services and SDKs to enhance the product experience across platforms.

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

Requirements:

• 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 which things can ship now and what things need time
• Focus. We're 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, play, and negotiate with opinionated designers, marketers, and PMs
• Kotlin Multiplatform (Java experience is OK but role is Kotlin Multiplatform)
• Prior experience with GCP is a plus