About this role
About Speechify
At Speechify, our mission is to ensure reading is never a barrier to learning. Over 50 million people use Speechify’s text-to-speech products—including apps on iOS, Android, macOS, Chrome, and web—to listen to PDFs, books, docs, and web content faster, smarter, and more joyfully than ever before. Our product has earned recognition from Google (Chrome Extension of the Year) and Apple (App of the Day and 2025 Inclusivity Design Award) for its impact and accessibility.
We’re a fully remote, distributed team of engineers, designers, researchers, and product builders from world-class companies like Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Stripe, and more. We move fast, ship often, and love solving real user problems.
Role Overview
As a Software Engineer on the macOS team, you’ll help build and scale Speechify’s core desktop experience for millions of users. You’ll own significant parts of our macOS app architecture, ship production-ready code, and collaborate closely with product, design, and engineering teams across the company.
This is a key role for someone who thrives in a fast-paced startup environment, enjoys making high-impact product decisions, loves delightful user experiences, and has a passion for accessibility and performance.
What You’ll Do
- Lead key engineering and product decisions for the macOS app.
- Write, test, and ship production-quality code that scales to millions of users.
- Maintain and evolve complex app architecture with a focus on performance and stability.
- Work within a cross-functional team, partnering with designers and PMs to shape features from concept to launch.
- Participate in product planning and roadmap discussions.
- Drive continuous improvement in code quality, CI/CD processes, and development workflows.
You should have:
- Demonstrated experience shipping macOS (or related desktop) applications used by many customers.
- Strong engineering instincts with a deep focus on user experience.
- A strategic mindset for building great products—not just writing code.
- Ability to work quickly, decide what to build now vs. later, and iterate fast.
- Experience working in remote, distributed teams.
Technical requirements:
- Swift / SwiftUI (macOS) proficiency.
- Solid understanding of AppKit, macOS frameworks, and desktop-specific UI paradigms.
- Strong understanding of concurrency and asynchronous execution models
- Familiarity with Bitrise, CI/CD workflows (e.g., Xcode Cloud, GitHub Actions).
- Strong understanding of concurrency and asynchronous execution models
What We offer:
- Impact & Ownership: Build and influence a product used by millions globally.
- Remote First: Flexible, asynchronous work culture.
- Growth & Leadership: Flat org — leadership is earned by impact, not title.
- Collaborative Environment: Work with smart, passionate engineers and designers.
- Competitive Compensation: Market-aligned salary, bonus, and equity.
The United States Based Salary range for this role is: 140,000-200,000 USD/Year + Bonus + Stock depending on experience
Why Join Speechify?
At Speechify, we ship fast, build for real users, and care deeply about quality and accessibility. You’ll work on products that change lives, and your contributions will shape both the product and the company.
If this sounds like your kind of challenge, we’d love to hear from you. Apply with your resume and links to your portfolio or GitHub!
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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.
Other facts
About Speechify
The mission of Speechify is to make sure that reading is never a barrier to learning.
Over 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 App of the Day.
Speechify also provides a voice over, voice cloning, and dubbing studio for businesses and creators and a text to speech API for developers. Through its products, Speechify is the largest provide of Speech AI in the world.
Cliff Weitzman founded Speechify to overcome his own dyslexia. Growing up, Cliff’s dad would read him Harry Potter because he couldn't do it himself. Cliff’s dad was his hero. But without reading, Cliff couldn't become the person he wanted to be. So, he learned to code and created Speechify to read books to himself.
Today, nearly 200 people around the globe work on Speechify in a 100% distributed setting – Speechify has no office. These include frontend and backend engineers, AI research scientists, and others from Amazon, Microsoft, and Google, leading PhD programs like Stanford, high growth startups like Revolut, Stripe, and Bolt, and many founders of their own companies.
Programming languages across Speechify include React, Typescript, NodeJS, Kotlin, Python, and Go.
We’d love to meet you! Please apply here: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/speechify.
What you'll do
- As a Software Engineer on the macOS team, you will build and scale Speechify’s core desktop experience. You will own significant parts of the macOS app architecture and collaborate closely with product, design, and engineering teams.
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