Software Engineer, Platform - Pune, India

Role Overview

The Platform team at Speechify is responsible for building and maintaining all backend services, including payments, analytics, subscriptions, new products, text-to-speech, and external APIs. This is a key role for a strategic thinker who enjoys fast-paced environments and is passionate about making product decisions in a 100% distributed setting.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain robust APIs including public TTS API, internal APIs like Payment, Subscription, Auth and Consumption Tracking, ensuring they meet business and scalability requirements
• Oversee the full backend API landscape, enhancing and optimizing for performance and maintainability
• Collaborate on B2B solutions, focusing on customization and integration needs for enterprise clients
• Work closely with cross-functional teams to align backend architecture with overall product strategy and user experience

Requirements

• Proven experience in backend development using TS/Node
• Direct experience with GCP and knowledge of AWS, Azure, or other cloud providers
• Efficiency in ideation and implementation, prioritizing tasks based on urgency and impact
• Preferred: Experience with Docker and containerized deployments
• Preferred: Proficiency in deploying high availability applications on Kubernetes

Skills

• Node.js
• TypeScript
• GCP
• Docker
• Kubernetes