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Software Engineer, macOS Core Product - West Valley City, USA

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As a Software Engineer for the macOS team, you'll build and scale Speechify's macOS app, maintain code quality, collaborate with teams, and drive product decisions.
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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.

Top Skills

Appkit
Bitrise
Ci/Cd
Github Actions
Swift
Swiftui
Xcode Cloud

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