Software Engineer, Data Infrastructure & Acquisition - Palma de Mallorca, Spain

Overview

The responsibilities of our Platform team include building and maintaining all backend services, including, but not limited to, payments, analytics, subscriptions, new products, text to speech, and external APIs. This is a key role and ideal for someone who thinks strategically, enjoys fast-paced environments, is passionate about making product decisions, and has experience building great user experiences that delight users. We are a flat organization that allows anyone to become a leader by showing excellent technical skills and delivering results consistently and fast. Work ethic, solid communication skills, and obsession with winning are paramount.

We are 100% distributed with no office. Our interview process involves several technical interviews and we aim to complete them within 1 week.

We’re looking to hire for our Data side of our AI team at Speechify. This role is responsible for all aspects of data collection to support our model training operations. We can build high-quality datasets at petabyte-scale and low cost through a tight integration of infrastructure, engineering, and research work. We are looking for a skilled Software Engineer to join us.

What You’ll Do

Be scrappy to find new sources of audio data and bring it into our ingestion pipeline

Operate and extend the cloud infrastructure for our ingestion pipeline, currently running on GCP and managed with Terraform

Collaborate closely with our Scientists to shift the cost / throughput / quality frontier, delivering richer data at bigger scale and lower cost to power our next-generation models

Collaborate with others on the AI Team and Speechify Leadership to craft the AI Team’s dataset roadmap to power Speechify’s next-generation consumer and enterprise products

An Ideal Candidate Should Have

BS / MS / PhD in Computer Science or a related field

5+ years of industry experience in software development

Proficiency with bash / Python scripting in Linux environments

Proficiency in Docker and Infrastructure-as-Code concepts and professional experience with at least one major Cloud Provider (we use GCP)

Experience with web crawlers, large-scale data processing workflows is a plus

Ability to handle multiple tasks and adapt to changing priorities

Strong communication skills, both written and verbal

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

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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.

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