Software Engineer, Platform - Berlin, Germany

&lt;p&gt;The mission of Speechify is to make sure that reading is never a barrier to learning.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;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 text-to-speech reading products include its iOS app, Android App, Mac App, Chrome Extension, and Web App.&amp;nbsp;Google recently named Speechify the Chrome Extension of the Year and Apple named Speechify its 2025 Design Award winner for Inclusivity.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Today, nearly 200 people around the globe work on Speechify in a 100% distributed setting – Speechify has no office.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Overview&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot; data-speechify-sentence=&quot;&quot;&gt;The Platform team owns the backend behind everything Speechify ships: the public TTS API,&amp;nbsp;payments, subscriptions, auth, consumption tracking, and analytics — serving over 50&amp;nbsp;million users across iOS, Android, Mac, Chrome, and web.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot; data-speechify-sentence=&quot;&quot;&gt;These are systems where correctness compounds. Subscription state has to stay consistent&amp;nbsp;across five clients and two app-store billing systems that each go quiet at the worst moment.&amp;nbsp;Consumption metering has to be exact enough to bill on and cheap enough to run at our&amp;nbsp;request volume. The public TTS API has external customers with their own products&amp;nbsp;depending on our latency and uptime. None of this degrades gracefully — it is either right, or&amp;nbsp;someone gets charged twice.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p data-speechify-sentence=&quot;&quot;&gt;The job is to make your own job smaller. Every system you own here should need less of&amp;nbsp;you a year from now than it did the day you took it, and the reward for that is a larger one.&amp;nbsp;That is the entire growth path on this team — there is no separate ladder, and no ceiling&amp;nbsp;except the one you stop raising. We are a flat organization: people become leaders here by&amp;nbsp;taking scope and being right about it, fast.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What Yo&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;u’&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ll Do&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;ul&gt; &lt;li data-speechify-sentence=&quot;&quot;&gt;Design, build, and own the APIs behind payments, subscriptions, auth, consumption&amp;nbsp;tracking, and our public TTS API&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li data-speechify-sentence=&quot;&quot;&gt;Take on services you didn&#39;t write and make them faster, cheaper, and harder to break&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li data-speechify-sentence=&quot;&quot;&gt;Establish that a change is correct before it ships, and leave behind the checks that keep it&amp;nbsp;correct after you&#39;ve moved on&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li data-speechify-sentence=&quot;&quot;&gt;Automate the parts of your role that shouldn&#39;t need a person, then go take on what that&amp;nbsp;freed you up for&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li data-speechify-sentence=&quot;&quot;&gt;Turn work you&#39;ve done once into work the whole team can repeat&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li data-speechify-sentence=&quot;&quot;&gt;Design B2B and enterprise integrations for customers building on top of us&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li data-speechify-sentence=&quot;&quot;&gt;Work with product, mobile, and web to keep backend architecture ahead of where the&amp;nbsp;product is going&lt;/li&gt; &lt;/ul&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;An Ideal Candidate Should Have&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;ul&gt; &lt;li&gt;Proven backend experience in TS/Node (required)&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;Direct experience with GCP; working knowledge of AWS, Azure, or another cloud&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;A habit of giving away work you used to own, and something to show for the room it&amp;nbsp;created&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;A daily working setup with AI agents you can describe in detail — what runs unattended,&amp;nbsp;what you review, and where you&#39;ve decided it doesn&#39;t get to act alone&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;The instinct to check a result against the system itself — logs, database state, the actual&amp;nbsp;request — rather than against a summary of it&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;Judgment about what not to build, and the ability to say plainly why you dropped it&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;A preference for being corrected over being right&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;Preferred: Docker and containerized deployments&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;Preferred: deploying high-availability applications on Kubernetes&lt;/li&gt; &lt;/ul&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Interview process&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Several technical interviews plus a take-home assessment on a real codebase. We aim to&amp;nbsp;finish within a week.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;The assessment runs in two stages: you&#39;ll submit, get real feedback from an engineer on this&amp;nbsp;team, and have time to act on it. Use the tools you use every day. You&#39;ll be asked to walk&amp;nbsp;through your reasoning, so bring it.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p data-speechify-sentence=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What We Offer &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;ul&gt; &lt;li&gt;A dynamic environment where your contributions shape the company and its products&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;A team that values innovation, intuition, and drive&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;Autonomy, fostering focus and creativity&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;The opportunity to have a significant impact in a revolutionary industry&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;Competitive compensation, a welcoming atmosphere, and a commitment to an exceptional asynchronous work culture&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;The privilege of working on a product that changes lives, particularly for those with learning differences like dyslexia, ADD, and more&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;An active role at the intersection of artificial intelligence and audio – a rapidly evolving tech domain&lt;/li&gt; &lt;/ul&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Germany Based &lt;/strong&gt;Salary range for this role is: 30,000-120,000 USD/Year + Bonus + Stock depending on experience.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Think you’re a good fit for this job?&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Tell us more about yourself and why you&#39;re interested in the role when you apply. &lt;br&gt;And don’t forget to include links to your portfolio and LinkedIn.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Not looking but know someone who would make a great fit?&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Refer them!&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Speechify is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;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.&lt;/p&gt;<p>Find more <a href="https://www.arbeitnow.com/english-speaking-jobs">English Speaking Jobs in Germany</a> on Arbeitnow</a>