Full-Time

Software Engineer

iOS Core Product

Posted on 3/10/2026

Speechify

Speechify

51-200 employees

Text-to-speech app with freemium model

No salary listed

Milan, Metropolitan City of Milan, Italy

Remote

Category
Software Engineering (1)
Required Skills
Git
iOS/Swift
DevOps
Requirements
  • Experience. You've worked on products that scaled to a large user base
  • Track record. You have worked on various products from inception to decent traction. You have been responsible for engineering the product
  • Customer obsession. We expect every team member whose responsibilities directly impact customers to be constantly obsessed about providing the best possible experience
  • Product thinking. You make thoughtful decisions about the evolution of your product and support internal teams and designers into taking the right direction
  • Speed. You work quickly to generate ideas 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
  • Technical skills. Swift, SwiftUI
  • Swift Programming Language
  • SwiftUI experience
  • Experience in Multithreading Programming
  • Working with CI/CD infrastructure
  • Experience with Fastlane
  • SOLID principles, the ability to write every single class according to SOLID
  • Experience with Git and understanding of different Git strategies
Responsibilities
  • Opportunity to lead key engineering and product decisions
  • Actively shipping 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
Desired Qualifications
  • Experience with products that scaled to a large user base
  • Track record of working on various products from inception to traction and having been responsible for engineering the product
  • Customer obsession
  • Product thinking
  • Speed
  • Focus
  • Swift, SwiftUI (Desirable)

Speechify provides text-to-speech software across multiple platforms (Chrome extension, web app, iOS, Android) to turn written content into spoken audio for over 20 million users. It helps students, professionals, and people with learning differences like dyslexia and ADHD by letting them listen to text instead of reading. The product works by converting on-demand text into natural-sounding speech via its freemium model (free basic features with paid subscriptions) and through partnerships that embed Speechify’s TTS into other websites (e.g., Medium, The Star Tribune, The Direct). The company differentiates itself through its accessibility focus, especially for learning differences, a broad cross-platform footprint, and strategic partnerships, backed by a team with experience from major tech companies. Its goal is to remove reading barriers and enable faster, more efficient access to information for a wide audience.

Company Size

51-200

Company Stage

Seed

Total Funding

$10M

Headquarters

Los Angeles, California

Founded

2017

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Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

  • Apple Design Award for Inclusivity in 2025 boosts credibility.
  • AI Voice Generator and Cloning expand developer API integrations.
  • Freemium model drives $2M monthly revenue from 500k downloads.

What critics are saying

  • Microsoft Copilot erodes freemium base in Windows 11 within 3-6 months.
  • Google phases out Chrome extensions, crippling 20M users in 6-12 months.
  • Apple iOS 20 TTS upgrades decimate app downloads in 9-15 months.

What makes Speechify unique

  • Speechify rebranded to Voice AI Assistant with voice typing and conversational AI.
  • Windows app uses on-device AI for transcription and dictation on Copilot+ PCs.
  • Serves dyslexia and ADHD users with 50M global users across extensions and apps.

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Benefits

Flexible Work Hours

Growth & Insights and Company News

Headcount

6 month growth

5%

1 year growth

1%

2 year growth

4%
TechCrunch
Mar 31st, 2026
Speechify launches Windows app with on-device AI for transcription and dictation

Speechify has launched a native Windows app using locally stored AI models for transcription and dictation across applications. The app can read aloud articles, documents and PDFs using the company's voice library. The Windows app processes voice entirely on-device on Copilot+ PCs and Windows 11 machines with compatible GPUs from Intel and AMD. It runs three on-device models: neural text-to-speech, real-time voice activity detection using the open-source Silero model, and Whisper-powered transcription. Users can switch to cloud-based models during usage. Speechify, which has over 50 million users, is competing with dictation apps like Wispr Flow and Superwhisper. The company recently expanded beyond text-to-speech into meeting transcription and voice assistance, positioning itself as a comprehensive voice application platform.

Cision
Jun 4th, 2025
Speechify Wins 2025 Apple Design Award Before Wwdc - Apple Calls Speechify "A Critical Resource That Helps People Live Their Lives"

Speechify is more than a great app; it's a critical resource that helps people live their lives. - Apple

Technical.ly
Jul 10th, 2024
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This is a guest post by Diego Mariscal, the founder and CEO of 2Gether-International. The DC-based organization runs several programs, including an accelerator, to support founders with disabilities. This piece references some of the organization’s affiliates and beneficiaries. The future of work for people with disabilities — historically the most overlooked and underemployed segment of the population — is more promising than ever before. This horizon brims with possibilities for not only increased inclusion but also leadership and advanced ingenuity. The catalyst is the suite of innovative, accessible, universally designed and assistive digital platforms that can both level playing fields and empower people with disabilities to be leaders in their respective industries

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