Software Engineer, iOS Core Product - Wilmington

Software Engineer, iOS Core Product – Wilmington, USA

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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.

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 Stripe, Vercel, Bolt, and many founders of their own companies.

With the growth of our iOS app, being the #18 productivity app in the App Store category and also our recent recognition as Apple's 2025 Design Award for Inclusivity, we need a Sr. iOS Engineer to support the new user base and work on new and exciting projects to push our product forward. This key role is 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 an obsession with winning are paramount.

Our interview process involves several technical interviews and we aim to complete them within one week.

• Opportunity to lead key engineering and product decisions
• Actively ship production code for the Speechify iOS app
• Work within a dedicated product team
• Participate in product discussions to shape the product roadmap
• Maintain and enhance the existing complex app architecture

• Experience in building products that scale to a large user base
• Track record from inception to traction on various products, responsible for engineering the product
• Customer obsession – constantly obsessed about delivering the best possible experience
• Product thinking – make thoughtful decisions about product evolution and support internal teams and designers
• Speed – work quickly to generate ideas and decide what can ship now versus what needs time
• Focus – thrive in a high‑growth, busy, remote team, knowing when to engage or be heads‑down
• Technical skills in Swift and SwiftUI

• Swift Programming Language
• Swift
  
  UI experience
• Experience in multithreading programming
• Working with CI/CD infrastructure
• Experience with Fastlane
• Solid understanding of SOLID principles and ability to write code accordingly
• Experience with Git and different Git strategies

• A fast‑growing environment where you can help shape the company and product
• An entrepreneurial crew that supports risk, intuition, and hustle
• The opportunity to make a big impact in a transformative industry
• A competitive salary, a collegiate atmosphere, and a commitment to building a great asynchronous culture
• Work on a product that millions of people use and where daily feedback includes users sharing that they cried when they first found the product because it was so impactful on their lives
• Support people with learning differences like Dyslexia, ADD, Low Vision, Concussions, Autism, and Second Language Learners, and give reading superpowers to professionals all over the world
• Work in one of the fastest growing sectors of tech: intersection of Artificial Intelligence and Audio

U.S. based salary range: $140,000–200,000 per year + Bonus + Stock depending on experience.

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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.

Seniority level:
Mid‑Senior level

Employment type:

Full‑time

Job function:
Engineering and Information Technology;
Industries:
Software Development

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