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title: 'Senior Software Engineer, Core Experiences - Vienna, Austria at Speechify'
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# Senior Software Engineer, Core Experiences - Vienna, Austria at Speechify

- **Company:** Speechify
- **Location:** Vienna, Austria
- **Posted:** 2025-08-26
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-05
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/speechify/jobs/5974595004

## Job description

Mission

Speechify is the easiest way to listen to the world’s information. Articles on the web, documents in the cloud, books on your phone. We absorb it all and let you listen to it at your desk, on the go, at your own speed, and with tools that make learning easier, deeper, and faster.

What streaming services have done for audio entertainment, we’re doing for audio information. And whatever we’re doing seems to be working. We’re #1 in our category, and experiencing exponential growth.

## Overview

We're looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our Core Experiences Team. This team builds and maintains the foundational services and SDKs that power Speechify’s product experience across platforms. It's a critical role for someone who enjoys working at the intersection of product and infrastructure, thinks strategically, and is passionate about designing clear, reliable APIs and simple systems that directly enhance the user experience.

## What You’ll Do

- Collaborate with Speechify’s Product Teams to scope projects, find ways to reduce scope to get faster feedback from customers, navigate the integration/UX tradeoffs relevant to different product teams, and deliver solutions via our cross-platform SDK
- Optimize existing functionality to ship things like faster loading and more intelligent parsing by designing more efficient abstractions and improving our algorithms
- Ship cloud functions, lightweight backend services, and jobs using Kotlin

An Ideal Candidate Should Have

- Systems thinking. You know that optimizing a system requires end-to-end design, and you believe simplicity is valuable.
- Speed. You work quickly to generate ideas and options and know how to decide which things can ship now and what things need time
- Focus. We’re a high-growth startup with a busy, remote team. You know how and when to engage or be heads down
- Collaboration. You know how to inspire, play, and negotiate with opinionated designers, marketers, and PMs
- Preferred Tech Stack:
- Kotlin Multiplatform (Java experience is OK but role is Kotlin Multiplatform)
- Prior experience with GCP is a plus

## What We Offer

- A fast-growing environment where you can help shape the company and product.
- An entrepreneurial-minded team that supports risk, intuition, and hustle.
- A hands-off management approach so you can focus and do your best work.
- An opportunity to make a big impact in a transformative industry.
- Competitive salaries, a friendly and laid-back atmosphere, and a commitment to building a great asynchronous culture.
- Opportunity to work on a life-changing product that millions of people use.
- Build products that directly impact and support people with learning differences like dyslexia, ADD, low vision, concussions, autism, and more.
- Work in one of the fastest growing sectors of tech, the intersection of artificial intelligence and audio.

The Austria Based Salary range for this role is: 30,000-100,000 USD/Year + Bonus + Stock depending on experience.

Think you’re a good fit for this job?

Tell us more about yourself and why you're interested in the role when you apply. And don’t forget to include links to your portfolio and LinkedIn.

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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.

## About Speechify

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Speechify is a voice AI productivity assistant that removes barriers to learning and productivity by enabling users to read, write, research, and create through speech.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Seed stage)
- **Headquarters**: Remote-first; no physical office (100% distributed team)
- **Founded**: 2017
- **Founders**: Cliff Weitzman

## Core Business
- **Primary industries**: Voice AI, Productivity Software, Accessibility Technology
- **Target customers**: B2C (students, professionals, individuals with reading disabilities like dyslexia) and B2B (enterprises, creators, developers via API)
- **Mission**: “Make sure reading is never a barrier to learning” and “remove barriers to learning and productivity through its Voice AI Assistant”

## Products & Services
- **Text to Speech (Core)**: Reads aloud any text – PDFs, books, articles, docs – at up to 4.5x speed with 1,000+ AI voices. Available as Chrome Extension, mobile apps (iOS, Android), and desktop (Windows).
- **Voice Typing**: Dictate text in any app up to 5× faster than typing.
- **AI Meeting Note Taker**: Records, transcribes, and summarizes meetings and conversations.
- **AI Podcasts**: Creates AI-generated podcasts from any document or description.
- **Voice AI Assistant**: Conversational assistant that answers questions, researches topics, and performs tasks via voice.
- **Speechify API**: Text-to-speech API for developers.
- **Speechify Voice Over / Dubbing Studio**: Business and creator tool for voice-over, voice cloning, and dubbing.
- **AI Workspace**: Voice-first productivity environment for docs, research, and workflows.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not publicly disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Over 60 million users (as of mid-2025); 1M+ 5-star reviews; 500k+ 5-star reviews (Chrome store)
- **Total Funding**: Multiple seed rounds (first in 2017, later rounds in 2020); investor names not publicly listed
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not publicly disclosed
- **Growth Signals**: Employee count grew 15.7% year-over-year to ~134 (LinkedIn), with 2,115 active job postings; expanded from text-to-speech into a full Voice AI platform; won 2025 Apple Design Award and Chrome Extension of the Year

## Competitive Advantages
- **Proprietary SIMBA Voice Models**: In-house family of voice models (SIMBA 3.0) optimized for natural prosody, low-latency conversation, and long-form listening – not reliant on third-party APIs.
- **Full-Stack AI Company**: Builds and trains its own voice AI, including a Frontier AI Lab, enabling tight integration across all features.
- **Massive User Base**: 60M+ users across nearly 200 countries, strong brand recognition in accessibility and productivity.
- **Award-Winning Design**: Apple Design Award 2025, Chrome Extension of the Year.

## Strategic Focus
- **Expansion into Voice AI Assistant**: Evolving from a read-aloud tool to a comprehensive voice-native productivity platform competing with dominant AI assistants.
- **Continued Investment in SIMBA Models**: Improving naturalness, multilingual support (60+ languages), and enterprise-grade speech.
- **Scaling the Team**: Aggressively hiring across engineering, AI, product, and go-to-market roles globally.

## Why Work Here
- **100% Remote**: No office – work from anywhere, design your own schedule.
- **Culture of Ownership**: “Extreme ownership” with no micromanagement; everyone is a builder, leaders stay hands-on.
- **High Performance & Autonomy**: Flat organization, fast decision-making, and a focus on impact over process.
- **Fast Interview Process**: Aims to complete technical interviews within one week.
- **Diverse Global Team**: ~200 people from companies like Amazon, Microsoft, Netflix, Google, Revolut, Stripe; representing 30+ countries.
- **Meaningful Mission**: Build technology that removes barriers to learning and accessibility for millions.

## Sources
1. [speechify.com (careers)](https://speechify.com/careers/)
2. [speechify.com (main)](https://speechify.com/)
3. [job-boards.greenhouse.io](http://job-boards.greenhouse.io/speechify)
4. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/speechifyinc)
5. [speechify.com (press release)](https://speechify.com/news/speechify-expands-voice-ai-assistant-text-to-speech/)

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