Senior Software Engineer, Speechify
AI Model Serving
AI text-to-speech reader
Job no longer available
AI text-to-speech reader
101-200 employees
Job no longer available
101-200 employees
Company mission
To make sure that reading is never a barrier to learning.
Role
Who you are
- This is a key role and ideal for someone who thinks strategically, enjoys fast-paced environments, passionate about making product decisions, and has experience building great user experiences that delight users
- Work ethic, solid communication skills, and obsession with winning are paramount
- If you are passionate about strategizing, enjoy high-paced environments, and are eager to take ownership of product decisions, we’d love to hear from you
- Proven experience in backend development: Python
- 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
- Proficiency in deploying high availability applications on Kubernetes
- Preferred: Experience deploying NLP or TTS models to production
What the job involves
- As Speechify expands, our AI team seeks a Senior Backend Engineer
- This role is central to ensuring our infrastructure scales efficiently, optimizing key product flows, and constructing resilient end-to-end systems
- State of the art voice cloning
- Low latency and cost effective text to speech
- We are a flat organization that allows anyone to become a leader by showing excellent technical skills and delivering results consistently and fast
Application process
- Tell us more about yourself and why you're interested in the role when you apply
- And don’t forget to include links to your portfolio and LinkedIn
- Our interview process involves several technical interviews and we aim to complete them within 1 week
Our take
Speechify’s AI-powered app and browser extension make it easy for users to listen to emails, text documents, e-books, PDFs, online blogs, and articles in a variety of voices, languages, and speeds.
Text-to-speech technology has been fraught with performance issues for a long time, though in recent years this has begun to change for the better. Products like Amazon Polly, Linguatech Voice Reader, and Natural Reader have made real inroads on this front. What may set Speechify apart, however, is the insight of founder Cliff Weitzman, who built the app to help people with dyslexia, ADHD, vision impairments and other learning difficulties.
The company’s future growth may depend largely on who it targets and how it does so. Thus far it’s been mostly branded as a learning assistant, lauded by parents, teachers and adult users with reading disabilities. This niche approach is interesting and offers a potentially large market in the education sector. However, the technology also has mainstream appeal, with the potential to be branded as a productivity booster or multi-tasking assistant.
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Insights
-8% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Leadership
Cliff Weitzman
(CEO)Having studied at Brown University, Cliff founded YumPass, CellArmor, and BoardBrake before working as a Software Engineer at WeMap and StarterPack. In 2018, they founded Speechify, serving as the CEO since.
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