Senior Software Engineer, Core Experiences - Evanston, IL, 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 involves building and maintaining foundational services and SDKs that enhance the product experience across platforms, focusing on designing reliable APIs and optimizing system functionality.

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