Senior Software Engineer, AI Model Serving – Glasgow, United Kingdom
The mission of Speechify is to make sure that reading is never a barrier to learning.
Over 50 million people use Speechify's text‑to‑speech products to turn whatever they're reading – PDFs, books, Google Docs, news articles, websites – into audio, so they can read faster, read more, and remember more. Speechify's products include its iOS, Android, Mac, Chrome Extension, and Web App. Google recently named Speechify the Chrome Extension of the Year and Apple named Speechify its App of the Day.
Today, nearly 200 people around the globe work at Speechify in a 100 % distributed setting – Speechify has no office. These include frontend and backend engineers, AI research scientists, and others from Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Stripe, Vercel, Bolt and many founders of their own companies.
Overview
As Speechify expands, our AI team seeks a Senior Backend Engineer. This role is central to ensuring our infrastructure scales efficiently, optimizing key product flows and constructing resilient end‑to‑end systems. If you are passionate about strategising, enjoy high‑paced environments, and are eager to take ownership of product decisions, we'd love to hear from you.
What You’ll Do
* State‑of‑the‑art voice cloning.
* Low‑latency and cost‑effective text‑to‑speech.
Ideal Candidate Should Have
* Proven experience in backend development: Python.
* Direct experience with GCP and knowledge of AWS, Azure, or other cloud providers.
* Efficiency in ideation and implementation, prioritising tasks based on urgency and impact.
* Experience with Docker and containerised deployments.
* Proficiency in deploying highly‑available applications on Kubernetes.
* Preferred: Experience deploying NLP or TTS models to production.
What We Offer
* A dynamic environment where your contributions shape the company and its products.
* A team that values innovation, intuition, and drive.
* Autonomy, fostering focus and creativity.
* The opportunity to have a significant impact in a revolutionary industry.
* Competitive compensation, a welcoming atmosphere and a commitment to an exceptional asynchronous work culture.
* The privilege of working on a product that changes lives, particularly for those with learning differences such as dyslexia, ADD and more.
* An active role at the intersection of artificial intelligence and audio – a rapidly evolving tech domain.
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Speechify is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Speechify does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age or other legally protected status.
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