Software Engineer, Speechify
AI Studio
$140-200k
+ Bonus + Equity depending on experience
AI text-to-speech reader
Open for applications
AI text-to-speech reader
101-200 employees
Open for applications
$140-200k
+ Bonus + Equity depending on experience
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
- Experience with AWS/GCS and be able to build service architectures leveraging these services
- Experience building scalable architectures using micro services
- Experience writing testable code and pushing the bar higher on testing infrastructure
- Proficiency with React and modern React stack, or NodeJS, or both
- Understanding low-level JS and be able to profile and optimize SPA FE/backend performance
- Preferred: video and audio processing experience
What the job involves
- The mission of Speechify is to make sure that reading is never a barrier to learning
- 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
- Speechify's Studio is one of our latest products addressing creators' needs to create human-sounding voiceovers with AI text-to-speech, dub videos, clone their voice and more
- Build and maintain Speechify's Creator Studio found at speechify.com/studio
- Integrate AI models to provide state of the art voiceovers, dubbing, voice cloning and more
- 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
Application process
- Our interview process involves several technical interviews and we aim to complete them within 1 week
- 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 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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