Software Engineer, Platform - Rotterdam, Netherlands Rotterdam, Netherlands

ph3Software Engineer, Platform - Rotterdam, Netherlands /h3 pRotterdam, Netherlands /p pThe mission of Speechify is to make sure that reading is never a barrier to learning. /p pOver 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.Google recently named Speechify the Chrome Extension of the Year and Apple named Speechify its 2025 Design Award winner for Inclusivity. /p pToday, nearly 200 people around the globe work on Speechify in a 100% distributed setting – Speechify has no office. /p pbOverview /b /p pThe Platform team owns the backend behind everything Speechify ships: the public TTS API,payments, subscriptions, auth, consumption tracking, and analytics — serving over 50million users across iOS, Android, Mac, Chrome, and web. /p pThese are systems where correctness compounds. Subscription state has to stay consistentacross five clients and two app-store billing systems that each go quiet at the worst moment.Consumption metering has to be exact enough to bill on and cheap enough to run at ourrequest volume. The public TTS API has external customers with their own productsdepending on our latency and uptime. None of this degrades gracefully — it is either right, orsomeone gets charged twice. /p pThe job is to make your own job smaller. Every system you own here should need less ofyou a year from now than it did the day you took it, and the reward for that is a larger one.That is the entire growth path on this team — there is no separate ladder, and no ceilingexcept the one you stop raising. We are a flat organization: people become leaders here bytaking scope and being right about it, fast. /p h3What You’ll Do /h3 ul liDesign, build, and own the APIs behind payments, subscriptions, auth, consumptiontracking, and our public TTS API /li liTake on services you didn't write and make them faster, cheaper, and harder to break /li liEstablish that a change is correct before it ships, and leave behind the checks that keep itcorrect after you've moved on /li liAutomate the parts of your role that shouldn't need a person, then go take on what thatfreed you up for /li liTurn work you've done once into work the whole team can repeat /li liDesign B2B and enterprise integrations for customers building on top of us /li liWork with product, mobile, and web to keep backend architecture ahead of where theproduct is going /li /ul h3An Ideal Candidate Should Have /h3 ul liProven backend experience in TS/Node (required) /li liDirect experience with GCP; working knowledge of AWS, Azure, or another cloud /li liA habit of giving away work you used to own, and something to show for the room itcreated /li liA daily working setup with AI agents you can describe in detail — what runs unattended,what you review, and where you've decided it doesn't get to act alone /li liThe instinct to check a result against the system itself — logs, database state, the actualrequest — rather than against a summary of it /li liJudgment about what not to build, and the ability to say plainly why you dropped it /li liA preference for being corrected over being right /li liPreferred: Docker and containerized deployments /li liPreferred: deploying high-availability applications on Kubernetes /li /ul pSeveral technical interviews plus a take-home assessment on a real codebase. We aim tofinish within a week. /p pThe assessment runs in two stages: you'll submit, get real feedback from an engineer on thisteam, and have time to act on it. Use the tools you use every day. You'll be asked to walkthrough your reasoning, so bring it. /p h3What We Offer /h3 ul liA dynamic environment where your contributions shape the company and its products /li liA team that values innovation, intuition, and drive /li liAutonomy, fostering focus and creativity /li liThe opportunity to have a significant impact in a revolutionary industry /li liCompetitive compensation, a welcoming atmosphere, and a commitment to an exceptional asynchronous work culture /li liThe privilege of working on a product that changes lives, particularly for those with learning differences like dyslexia, ADD, and more /li liAn active role at the intersection of artificial intelligence and audio – a rapidly evolving tech domain /li /ul pbThe Netherlands Based /bSalary range for this role is: 30,000-120,000 USD/Year + Bonus + Stock depending on experience. /p h3Think you’re a good fit for this job? /h3 pbSpeechify is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. /b /p pSpeechify 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. /p h3Voluntary Self-Identification /h3 pFor government reporting purposes, we ask candidates to respond to the below self-identification survey.Completion of the form is entirely voluntary. Whatever your decision, it will not be considered in the hiringprocess or thereafter. Any information that you do provide will be recorded and maintained in aconfidential file. /p pAs set forth in Speechify’s Equal Employment Opportunity policy,we do not discriminate on the basis of any protected group status under any applicable law. /p pIf you believe you belong to any of the categories of protected veterans listed below, please indicate by making the appropriate selection.As a government contractor subject to the Vietnam Era Veterans Readjustment Assistance Act (VEVRAA), we request this information in order to measurethe effectiveness of the outreach and positive recruitment efforts we undertake pursuant to VEVRAA. 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