About the job
About Speechify
Speechify helps people access information by listening instead of reading. Users can listen to articles, cloud documents, and books on their phones, making learning more flexible and accessible. As the top-ranked app in its category, Speechify continues to grow quickly and reshape how people consume audio information.
Role Overview
The Core Experiences Team builds and maintains the services and SDKs that support Speechify’s product across many platforms. As a Senior Software Engineer in Madrid, this role combines product development with infrastructure work. The position suits someone who enjoys designing reliable APIs, creating straightforward systems, and improving user experience through thoughtful engineering decisions.
What You Will Do
- Collaborate with Product Teams to define project scopes, improve processes for faster customer feedback, and balance integration and user experience needs across teams.
- Deliver solutions through Speechify’s cross-platform SDK.
- Improve existing features for better performance, including faster load times and smarter parsing, by refining abstractions and algorithms.
- Build cloud functions, lightweight backend services, and jobs using Kotlin.
What We Look For
- Strong systems thinking and a preference for simple, effective design.
- Ability to move quickly, generate ideas, and distinguish between immediate deliverables and projects that need more time.
- Focus and adaptability within a startup setting, knowing when to collaborate and when to work independently.
- Experience working with designers, marketers, and product managers; able to inspire and negotiate across disciplines.
Location: Madrid, Spain
