Staff Backend Engineer - Remote

Overview

As Speechify expands, our AI team seeks a Staff 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 strategizing, enjoy high-paced environments, and are eager to take ownership of product decisions, we’d love to hear from you.

In Short

• Work alongside machine learning researchers, engineers, and product managers to bring our AI Voices to their customers for a diverse range of use cases.
• Deploy and operate the core ML inference workloads for our AI Voices serving pipeline.
• Introduce new techniques, tools, and architecture that improve the performance, latency, throughput, and efficiency of our deployed models.
• Build tools to give us visibility into our bottlenecks and sources of instability and then design and implement solutions to address the highest priority issues.

Requirements

• Experience shipping Python-based services
• Experience being responsible for the successful operation of a critical production service
• Experience with public cloud environments, GCP preferred
• Experience with Infrastructure such as Code, Docker, and containerized deployments.
• Preferred: Experience deploying high-availability applications on Kubernetes.
• Preferred: Experience deploying ML models to production

Benefits

• 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 like dyslexia, ADD, and more.
• An active role at the intersection of artificial intelligence and audio – a rapidly evolving tech domain.