Senior Software Engineer, Core Experiences - Cologne, Germany

Overview

Senior Software Engineer for Speechify’s Core Experiences team, building and maintaining foundational services and SDKs across platforms.

What you'll do

• Collaborate with product teams to scope projects and reduce scope to get faster feedback.
• Optimize functionality to improve loading speed and more intelligent parsing.
• Design efficient abstractions and improve algorithms to ship product improvements.
• Ship cloud functions, lightweight backend services, and jobs using Kotlin.
• Navigate integration and UX tradeoffs across different product teams.

What you'll need

• Systems thinking, with end-to-end design and a preference for simplicity.
• Speed in generating ideas/options and deciding what can ship now vs later.
• Focus to know when to engage versus work heads-down.
• Collaboration skills for working with designers, marketers, and PMs.
• Experience with Kotlin Multiplatform (Java experience is OK).

Nice to have

• Prior experience with GCP.

Details

• Work location: Cologne, Germany.