Platform Software Engineer, Speechify
AI text-to-speech reader
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AI text-to-speech reader
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
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 high-pace environments, passionate about owning product decisions and has experience building and scaling complex engineering systems
- Experience. You've played a crucial role in building and maintaining of large scale products and have worked both backend and frontend
- Systems thinking. You know how to think high level about end-to-end systems involving multiple products, 3rd party services etc
- 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
- Tech Stack: (must) NodeJS, ReactJS, TypeScript, (good to have) Java, Go, Python
What the job involves
- Articles on the web, documents in the cloud, books on your phone—we absorb the world’s content and help our members listen to it on the go, at their own speed, with tools that make learning easier, deeper, and faster
- Or, put another way: what Spotify has done for audio entertainment we’re doing for audio information
- And whatever we’re doing seems to be working: we’re #1 in our category, profitable, and have hockey-stick growth
- With that growth comes the need for a Software Engineer, Platform to join our newly formed Platform team and help us scale our infrastructure, optimize the performance of key product flows and build end-to-end systems
- Build, own and report on the performance of complex end-to-end systems
- Actively participate in product decisions and refining the product roadmap
- Work with the Platform team to provide universal architecture and experience across our products
Application process
- Tell us about yourself, why you're interested in the role, and include link to their LinkedIn
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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