Software Engineer, Speechify
iOS Core Product
AI text-to-speech reader
Open for applications
AI text-to-speech reader
101-200 employees
Open for applications
101-200 employees
Company mission
To make sure that reading is never a barrier to learning.
Role
Who you are
- Experience. You've worked on products that scaled to a large user base
- Track record. You have worked on various products from inception to decent traction. You have been responsible for engineering the product
- Customer obsession. We expect every team member whose responsibilities directly impact customers to be constantly obsessed about providing the best possible experience
- Product thinking. You make thoughtful decisions about the evolution of your product and support internal teams and designers into taking the right direction
- Speed. You work quickly to generate ideas 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
- Technical skills. Swift, SwiftUI
- Swift Programming Language
- SwiftUI experience
- Experience in Multithreading Programming
- Working with CI/CD infrastructure
- Experience with Fastlane
- SOLID principles, the ability to write every single class according to SOLID
- Experience with Git and understanding of different Git strategies
What the job involves
- With the growth of our iOS app, being the #18 productivity app in the App Store category, we find the need for a Senior iOS Engineer to help us support the new user base as well as work on new and exciting projects to push our missing forward
- 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
- We are a flat organization that allows anyone to become a leader by showing excellent technical skills and delivering results consistently and fast. Work ethic, solid communication skills, and obsession with winning are paramount
- Opportunity to lead key engineering and product decisions
- Actively shipping production code for the Speechify iOS app
- Work within a dedicated product team
- Participate in product discussions to shape the product roadmap
- Maintain and enhance the existing complex app architecture
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.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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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