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Role Description

This role offers the opportunity to shape the foundational services and SDKs that power a leading cross-platform product experience. You will work at the intersection of product and infrastructure, designing clear, reliable APIs and simple systems that directly enhance user engagement. The position emphasizes both strategic thinking and hands-on execution, allowing you to optimize functionality, improve algorithms, and deliver lightweight backend services. You will collaborate closely with product teams to scope projects, balance integration and UX trade-offs, and ensure fast, efficient feedback cycles. This is a high-impact role in a fast-growing environment, ideal for engineers who thrive on creating scalable, elegant systems while contributing to a transformative, AI-enabled product experience.

• Collaborate with product teams to scope projects, balance integration/UX trade-offs, and deliver cross-platform SDK solutions.
• Optimize existing systems for speed, efficiency, and reliability by improving abstractions and algorithms.
• Develop cloud functions, lightweight backend services, and jobs using Kotlin or Kotlin Multiplatform.
• Maintain high-quality, reusable code while adhering to system-wide design and engineering standards.
• Contribute to the overall system architecture, ensuring services are scalable, robust, and aligned with product needs.
• Support continuous improvement initiatives to enhance user experience, product performance, and engineering practices.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience, ideally in product-focused or infrastructure roles.
• Expertise in Kotlin Multiplatform; Java experience acceptable if Kotlin Multiplatform exposure is limited.
• Strong understanding of systems thinking and end-to-end design for scalable solutions.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms, preferably GCP, and building backend services or jobs.
• Ability to prioritize work effectively, focus in a fast-paced remote environment, and collaborate with cross-functional teams.
• Excellent problem-solving, communication, and analytical skills.
• Passion for building elegant, simple systems that enhance product experiences.

Requirements

• 5+ years of software engineering experience, ideally in product-focused or infrastructure roles.
• Expertise in Kotlin Multiplatform; Java experience acceptable if Kotlin Multiplatform exposure is limited.
• Strong understanding of systems thinking and end-to-end design for scalable solutions.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms, preferably GCP, and building backend services or jobs.
• Ability to prioritize work effectively, focus in a fast-paced remote environment, and collaborate with cross-functional teams.
• Excellent problem-solving, communication, and analytical skills.
• Passion for building elegant, simple systems that enhance product experiences.

Benefits

• Competitive U.S.-based salary range: $140,000–$200,000 USD/year, plus bonus and stock options.
• Opportunity to shape products used by millions of users, including those with learning differences.
• Work in a fast-growing, entrepreneurial environment with hands-off management.
• Flexible remote work and asynchronous, collaborative culture.
• Comprehensive benefits, including health insurance and professional development support.
• Chance to impact AI-enabled audio technology at the intersection of accessibility and innovation.