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<div>Role description 
Lead Android Engineer &ndash; Mobile Platform (Kotlin / Android SDK)

Leeds (Hybrid &ndash; 2&ndash;3 days onsite) 
Start: ASAP 
Employment Type: Fixed Term Employment/ Contract Inside IR35 


About the Role

We are looking for a Lead Android Engineer to drive technical design and delivery across our mobile platform.

This is a hands-on technical leadership role, where you will take ownership of Android architecture, lead proof-of-concept (POC) initiatives, and build high-performance, secure, and scalable mobile applications.

You will work closely with engineering teams, product stakeholders, and architects to define best practices and deliver robust mobile solutions that support business-critical use cases. 


What You&rsquo;ll Be Doing
<ul>
<li>Lead Android technical design and architecture, ensuring scalable and maintainable solutions</li>
<li>Drive POC development and innovation initiatives, validating new approaches and technologies</li>
<li>Develop and enhance high-performance Android applications using modern frameworks</li>
<li>Define and implement best practices in security, performance, and code quality</li>
<li>Work closely with cross-functional teams to deliver end-to-end mobile solutions</li>
<li>Collaborate with architects and technical leaders to align with enterprise engineering standards</li>
<li>Troubleshoot and optimise applications for performance, scalability, and user experience</li>
<li>Support continuous improvement through code reviews, mentoring, and technical guidance</li></ul> 


What You&rsquo;ll Bring
<ul>
<li>Minimum of 5 years of experience in Android development</li>
<li>Strong hands-on expertise with:
<ul><li>Android SDK</li>
<li>Kotlin (preferred) / Java</li>
</ul></li><li>Solid understanding of:
<ul><li>Mobile architecture patterns (MVVM, Clean Architecture)</li>
<li>Application security and performance optimisation</li>
<li>API integration and mobile backend interaction</li>
</ul></li><li>Experience leading technical design and POC implementation</li>
<li>Strong problem-solving skills and ability to work in agile delivery environments</li>
<li>Excellent communication skills with the ability to engage technical and non-technical stakeholders</li></ul> 


Apply Now

If you&rsquo;re passionate about building high-quality mobile applications and leading engineering excellence, we&rsquo;d love to hear from you.

#UST 
Skills 
software development,android sdk,technical design,software development kit, 
About UST 
UST is a global digital transformation solutions provider. For more than 20 years, UST has worked side by side with the world&rsquo;s best companies to make a real impact through transformation. Powered by technology, inspired by people and led by purpose, UST partners with their clients from design to operation. With deep domain expertise and a future-proof philosophy, UST embeds innovation and agility into their clients&rsquo; organizations. With over 30,000 employees in 30 countries, UST builds for boundless impact&mdash;touching billions of lives in the process.</div>

Lead Android Engineer – Mobile Platform (Kotlin / Android SDK) (Lead I - Software Engineering)

<div>Role description 
Lead SDK Architect (Mobile Platform)
Type: Contract, Fixed-Term or Permanent

Location: London / Leeds (Hybrid)

Start: ASAP

Shape the future of mobile SDK architecture used at enterprise scale. 


UST is seeking an exceptional Lead SDK Architect to define and drive the next generation of our mobile SDK platform across iOS and Android.

This is a rare opportunity for an architect who thrives on solving complex platform challenges, designing elegant developer experiences, and modernising SDK ecosystems that are consumed by thousands of applications and developers.

You'll take ownership of the target architecture and modernisation strategy for a business-critical mobile SDK, creating a scalable, secure, and future-ready platform that improves performance, reduces integration complexity, and accelerates product innovation.

Whether you're available immediately for a contract engagement or seeking a fixed-term employment opportunity, we'd love to hear from you. 


About the Role:

You'll be leading a high-profile SDK transformation programme where you'll have the opportunity to:
<ul>
<li>Define the future architecture for a large-scale mobile SDK ecosystem</li>
<li>Create an enterprise-grade platform consumed by third-party developers and partners</li>
<li>Drive modernisation across iOS and Android without disrupting existing integrations</li>
<li>Influence technical strategy, engineering standards, product direction, and developer experience</li>
<li>Work alongside senior architecture, engineering, and product leadership teams</li></ul> 


What You'll Be Doing:

As the Lead SDK Architect, you'll be responsible for defining and delivering the technical vision for our mobile SDK platform.

Key responsibilities include:

Architecture &amp; Strategy
<ul>
<li>Define the target SDK architecture and long-term modernisation roadmap across iOS and Android</li>
<li>Establish architectural principles, standards, and governance for SDK development</li>
<li>Design a scalable, modular, and secure platform that supports future business growth</li>
<li>Create a migration strategy that enables incremental adoption while maintaining compatibility for existing consumers</li>
</ul>
Developer Experience &amp; SDK Design
<ul>
<li>Define public API contracts and versioning strategies</li>
<li>Improve SDK usability and reduce integration effort for external developers</li>
<li>Drive consistency across platforms while respecting native platform best practices</li>
<li>Champion SDK design patterns that maximise maintainability and extensibility</li>
</ul>
Platform Modernisation
<ul>
<li>Lead architecture decisions around modularisation, packaging, dependency management, and release engineering</li>
<li>Guide Proof of Concepts and technical validation activities</li>
<li>Partner closely with Product Owners, Engineering Leads, and Enterprise Architects</li>
<li>Provide architectural leadership throughout delivery and implementation</li></ul> 


What We're Looking For:

Essential Experience
<ul>
<li>Minimum of 8+ years of software engineering and architecture experience</li>
<li>Significant hands-on experience with mobile platforms (iOS and/or Android)</li>
<li>Proven track record designing and evolving mobile SDKs consumed by external developers</li>
<li>Experience leading large-scale platform modernisation or transformation programmes</li>
<li>Strong stakeholder management and executive communication skills</li>
<li>Ability to balance strategic architecture with practical delivery</li>
</ul>
Technical Expertise:

API &amp; SDK Architecture
<ul>
<li>Public API design and governance</li>
<li>Semantic versioning strategies</li>
<li>Backward and forward compatibility</li>
<li>SDK evolution and deprecation management</li>
<li>Stable ABI considerations</li>
</ul>
Mobile SDK Distribution

Android
<ul>
<li>AAR packaging</li>
<li>Maven publishing</li>
<li>Gradle plugins</li>
</ul>
iOS
<ul>
<li>XCFrameworks</li>
<li>Swift Package Manager</li>
<li>CocoaPods</li>
<li>Strong understanding of binary versus source distribution trade-offs</li>
</ul>
Modular Platform Design
<ul>
<li>Feature modularisation</li>
<li>Dependency isolation</li>
<li>Transitive dependency management</li>
<li>Library version conflict mitigation</li>
</ul>
Performance &amp; Optimisation
<ul>
<li>Binary footprint reduction</li>
<li>Startup performance optimisation</li>
<li>Memory and CPU efficiency</li>
<li>Battery and network usage optimisation</li>
<li>Runtime performance governance</li>
</ul>
Security &amp; Hardening
<ul>
<li>R8 / ProGuard optimisation</li>
<li>Anti-tampering controls</li>
<li>Runtime Application Self-Protection (RASP)</li>
<li>Root and jailbreak detection</li>
<li>Certificate and public key pinning</li>
<li>Secure storage using Keychain, Keystore, and Secure Enclave</li>
</ul>
Privacy &amp; Compliance
<ul>
<li>Privacy-by-design principles</li>
<li>Data minimisation frameworks</li>
<li>Apple Privacy Manifests</li>
<li>Required Reason APIs</li>
<li>Android Data Safety requirements</li>
<li>GDPR and broader privacy compliance considerations</li>
</ul>
Observability &amp; Release Engineering
<ul>
<li>Telemetry and diagnostics</li>
<li>Crash reporting frameworks</li>
<li>Remote configuration</li>
<li>Automated CI/CD pipelines</li>
<li>SDK signing and release management</li></ul> 


Desirable Experience

You'll stand out if you have experience within:
<ul>
<li><ul><li>Financial Services</li>
<li>Fraud Prevention</li>
<li>Cyber Security</li>
<li>Enterprise Software Platforms</li>
<li>Identity &amp; Authentication Solutions</li>
<li>Mobile Risk or Behavioural Analytics</li>
</ul></li><li>Experience working with on-device sensor data, behavioural signal collection, and platform-specific background execution constraints would be highly advantageous.</li></ul> 


Hurry &amp; apply to learn more!

#UST 
Skills 
solution architecture,cross functional,architectural standards,program transformation, 
About UST 
UST is a global digital transformation solutions provider. For more than 20 years, UST has worked side by side with the world&rsquo;s best companies to make a real impact through transformation. Powered by technology, inspired by people and led by purpose, UST partners with their clients from design to operation. With deep domain expertise and a future-proof philosophy, UST embeds innovation and agility into their clients&rsquo; organizations. With over 30,000 employees in 30 countries, UST builds for boundless impact&mdash;touching billions of lives in the process.</div>

Lead SDK Architect (Mobile Platform) - London/ Leeds - Software Solution Architect I

Speechify

<div>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 &ndash; PDFs, books, Google Docs, news articles, websites &ndash; 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 Design award winner for inclusivity for 2025.

Today, nearly 200 people around the globe work on Speechify in a 100% distributed setting &ndash; 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.

Overview

With the growth of our Android app, being the most used text-to-speech app in the Play Store, we find the need for a Senior Android Engineer to help us support the new user base as well as work on new and exciting projects to push us forward.
This is a key role and ideal for someone who thinks strategically, enjoys fast-paced environments, 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 obsession with winning are paramount.

Our interview process involves several technical interviews and we aim to complete them within 1 week.

What You'll Do
<ul>
<li>Owning major features and working closely with our design team - take ownership of features inside the app and become responsible of delivering high quality features</li>
<li>Shape the future of our Android team</li>
<li>Own, maintain and improve reliability metrics for key features</li>
<li>Participate in discussions across different teams - Product, Design, Engineering</li>
<li>Review pull requests, and support other teammates</li>
<li>Handle critical issues or cope with unexpected challenges</li>
<li>Take ownership of feature releases and provide nightly builds for the QA team</li>
</ul>
An Ideal Candidate Should Have
<ul>
<li>5+ years of software engineering experience</li>
<li>Familiarity with Android components</li>
<li>Experience building or contributing to at least one Android app</li>
<li>Product design intuition and user empathy</li>
<li>Drive to push the boundaries of Android UI/UX</li>
<li>Understanding of the importance of tests and how to approach writing tests</li>
<li>Self-drive to improve the app and codebase above and beyond what's outlined in the spec</li>
<li>Rock solid experience with Kotlin, Kotlin Coroutines, Kotlin Flow, Dagger 2, MVVM, Clean Architecture, Background Services, Music Player Service, Android Animations, Jetpack Navigation, JUnit tests</li>
<li>Excellent communication skills</li>
<li>User oriented problem solving approach</li>
<li>Driven with continuous feedback from leaders</li>
</ul>
Bonus:
<ul>
<li>Experience building, maintaining, or otherwise contributing to open source projects in Android</li>
<li>Experience with iOS, Web or NodeJS</li>
</ul>
Technologies we use:
<ul>
<li>Kotlin</li>
<li>Kotlin Coroutines</li>
<li>Kotlin Flow</li>
<li>Jetpack Navigation</li>
<li>Dagger 2</li>
<li>Room</li>
<li>Custom Views, Canvas &amp; Paint</li>
<li>Jetpack Compose</li>
<li>JUnit</li>
</ul>
What We offer:
<ul>
<li>A fast-growing environment where you can help shape the company and product.</li>
<li>An entrepreneurial-minded team that supports risk, intuition, and hustle.</li>
<li>A hands-off management approach so you can focus and do your best work.</li>
<li>An opportunity to make a big impact in a transformative industry.</li>
<li>Competitive salaries, a friendly and laid-back atmosphere, and a commitment to building a great asynchronous culture.</li>
<li>Opportunity to work on a life-changing product that millions of people use.</li>
<li>Build products that directly impact and support people with learning differences like dyslexia, ADD, low vision, concussions, autism, and more.</li>
<li>Work in one of the fastest growing sectors of tech, the intersection of artificial intelligence and audio.</li>
</ul>
Think you're a good fit for this job?

Tell us more about yourself and why you're interested in the role when you apply.
 
And don't forget to include links to your portfolio and LinkedIn.

Not looking but know someone who would make a great fit?

Refer them!

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.</div>

Tech Lead, Android Core Product - Leeds, United Kingdom

<div>Role description 
Principal iOS Engineer (SDK / Azure / Java)

Location: Leeds or London (Hybrid) 
Type: Contract / Fixed-Term Employment 
Start: ASAP 


We&rsquo;re hiring a Principal iOS Engineer to lead the design and delivery of a Mobile SDK modernisation programme within a large-scale platform environment.

You&rsquo;ll own the iOS architecture, define SDK design standards, and build enterprise-grade components focused on security, performance, and scalable distribution. 


Key Responsibilities
<ul>
<li>Lead iOS architecture and technical design for SDK development and modernisation</li>
<li>Define best practices for SDK distribution, testing, and security</li>
<li>Build and validate POCs aligned to target enterprise architecture</li>
<li>Design reusable SDKs consumed by external mobile applications</li>
<li>Ensure compliance with privacy, App Store, and regulated environment standards</li>
<li>Mentor engineers and drive coding, API, and quality standards</li></ul> 


Key Skills &amp; Experience
<ul>
<li>Strong experience as a Senior / Principal iOS Engineer (minimum of 6+ years)</li>
<li>Proven track record building and maintaining reusable iOS SDKs/frameworks</li>
<li>Expert in Swift (Concurrency, Combine) with Objective-C interoperability</li>
<li>Experience with SDK distribution (XCFrameworks, SPM, CocoaPods)</li>
<li>Strong understanding of iOS security (Keychain, Secure Enclave, App Attest, certificate pinning)</li>
<li>Knowledge of privacy standards (ATT, Privacy Manifests, data minimisation)</li>
<li>Experience with performance optimisation and testing (Instruments, XCTest)</li>
<li>Familiarity with Azure / backend integration (Java-based platforms) is a plus</li></ul> 


Hurry &amp; apply to learn more!

#UST 
Skills 
java,detection system,backend development,fraud detection,cloud computing, 
About UST 
UST is a global digital transformation solutions provider. For more than 20 years, UST has worked side by side with the world&rsquo;s best companies to make a real impact through transformation. Powered by technology, inspired by people and led by purpose, UST partners with their clients from design to operation. With deep domain expertise and a future-proof philosophy, UST embeds innovation and agility into their clients&rsquo; organizations. With over 30,000 employees in 30 countries, UST builds for boundless impact&mdash;touching billions of lives in the process.</div>

Principal iOS Engineer (SDK / Azure / Java) - UK, Hybrid - Architect I - Enterprise Solutions

<div>Mission

Speechify is the easiest way to listen to the world's information. Articles on the web, documents in the cloud, books on your phone. We absorb it all and let you listen to it at your desk, on the go, at your own speed, and with tools that make learning easier, deeper, and faster.

What streaming services have done for audio entertainment, we're doing for audio information. And whatever we're doing seems to be working. We're #1 in our category, and experiencing exponential growth.

Overview

We're looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our Core Experiences Team. This team builds and maintains the foundational services and SDKs that power Speechify's product experience across platforms. It's a critical role for someone who enjoys working at the intersection of product and infrastructure, thinks strategically, and is passionate about designing clear, reliable APIs and simple systems that directly enhance the user experience.

What You'll Do
<ul>
<li>Collaborate with Speechify's Product Teams to scope projects, find ways to reduce scope to get faster feedback from customers, navigate the integration/UX tradeoffs relevant to different product teams, and deliver solutions via our cross-platform SDK</li>
<li>Optimize existing functionality to ship things like faster loading and more intelligent parsing by designing more efficient abstractions and improving our algorithms</li>
<li>Ship cloud functions, lightweight backend services, and jobs using Kotlin</li>
</ul>
An Ideal Candidate Should Have
<ul>
<li>Systems thinking. You know that optimizing a system requires end-to-end design, and you believe simplicity is valuable.</li>
<li>Speed. You work quickly to generate ideas and options and know how to decide which things can ship now and what things need time</li>
<li>Focus. We're a high-growth startup with a busy, remote team. You know how and when to engage or be heads down</li>
<li>Collaboration. You know how to inspire, play, and negotiate with opinionated designers, marketers, and PMs</li>
<li>Preferred Tech Stack:
<ul><li>Kotlin Multiplatform (Java experience is OK but role is Kotlin Multiplatform)</li>
<li>Prior experience with GCP is a plus</li>
</ul>
</li></ul>What We Offer
<ul><li>A fast-growing environment where you can help shape the company and product.</li>
<li>An entrepreneurial-minded team that supports risk, intuition, and hustle.</li>
<li>A hands-off management approach so you can focus and do your best work.</li>
<li>An opportunity to make a big impact in a transformative industry.</li>
<li>Competitive salaries, a friendly and laid-back atmosphere, and a commitment to building a great asynchronous culture.</li>
<li>Opportunity to work on a life-changing product that millions of people use.</li>
<li>Build products that directly impact and support people with learning differences like dyslexia, ADD, low vision, concussions, autism, and more.</li>
<li>Work in one of the fastest growing sectors of tech, the intersection of artificial intelligence and audio.</li>
</ul>
Think you're a good fit for this job?

Tell us more about yourself and why you're interested in the role when you apply.
 
And don't forget to include links to your portfolio and LinkedIn.

Not looking but know someone who would make a great fit?

Refer them!

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.</div>

Senior Software Engineer, Core Experiences - Leeds, United Kingdom

CreateFuture

<div>Working at CreateFuture 
 
CreateFuture is an AI-native consulting partner where people do work that matters and are supported to do it well. We work alongside organisations such as PayPal, adidas, NatWest, FanDuel and Money Saving Expert, building digital products and services that make a difference while always putting people first.

We're a team of creators. We write code, shape delivery, build go-to-market strategies, develop AI solutions and create the practices that support our people. We work side by side with our clients, challenging what's not working and helping them to build the future. Our commitment to craft, quality, and culture has helped us scale to over 600 people in just a few years.

Our UK Benefits
<ul>
<li>35 days leave (including bank holidays).</li>
<li>Private medical insurance.</li>
<li>Enhanced parental and adoption leave.</li>
<li>Financial coaching + 5% pension match.</li>
<li>40 hours of paid learning and development.</li>
</ul>
 View our full list of UK benefits.
 
 
CreateFuture is a Great Place to Work-Certified&trade; company and has won Best Workplaces UK multiple years in a row.

Join us on our journey. Let's create tomorrow, together, today. 


About the role and team: 

A hands-on Lead engineer embedded in the client's platform team, responsible for the reliability, scalability, and evolution of their Kubernetes-based infrastructure on AWS. This role sits at the intersection of platform engineering and DevOps, owning the day-to-day health of containerised workloads while driving improvements to delivery pipelines, GitOps practices, and managed service configuration. The right candidate is comfortable working autonomously in a mature, opinionated stack and can influence without authority across engineering teams. This role combines deep hands-on expertise with team leadership, stakeholder engagement, and delivery planning. The right candidate can operate credibly at an engineering level while also communicating clearly with business and technical stakeholders, translating platform priorities into a coherent roadmap and ensuring the team has the clarity and support needed to deliver effectively.

What you'll be doing: 
<ul>
<li>Own the platform engineering roadmap, working with business and technical stakeholders to prioritise initiatives, surface risks, and align delivery against wider programme goals</li>
<li>Lead and mentor a team of platform engineers, providing technical guidance, supporting growth, and maintaining quality and consistency across the team's output</li>
<li>Act as the primary technical point of contact for platform-related matters across engineering, product, and operations teams</li>
<li>Support on call for the EKS platform.</li>
<li>Own the operational health and evolution of containerised workloads running on EKS, including Helm chart management and Kustomize-based environment configuration</li>
<li>Drive GitOps practices using Flux, maintaining, improving, and troubleshooting the reconciliation pipeline across environments</li>
<li>Manage and optimise core managed services: EKS, MSK, and RDS, including scaling, patching, cost governance, and incident response</li>
<li>Maintain and extend infrastructure-as-code using Terraform, ensuring consistency, modularity, and alignment with AWS best practices</li>
<li>Support and improve GitHub Actions CI/CD workflows, including build, test, and deployment pipelines for containerised applications</li>
<li>Collaborate with development teams to support the hosting, debugging, and performance of Java/Kotlin and Python-based services</li>
<li>Identify and address platform-level technical debt, contributing to a roadmap of incremental improvements</li>
<li>Support on call for the EKS platform.</li>
</ul>
What you bring:
<ul>
<li>Kubernetes at production scale, EKS preferred, with strong understanding of networking, RBAC, resource management, and cluster operations</li>
<li>GitOps tooling, Flux (essential), with solid working knowledge of Helm and Kustomize</li>
<li>AWS managed services, hands-on experience with EKS, MSK, and RDS in production environments</li>
<li>Terraform, authoring and maintaining modular infrastructure-as-code across multiple environments</li>
<li>GitHub Actions, building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines for containerised workloads</li>
<li>Application-layer awareness, ability to support and troubleshoot Java/Kotlin and/or Python services running in containers</li>
<li>Strong operational mindset, with experience owning incident management, on-call frameworks, and post-incident review processes</li>
<li>Proven experience leading a platform or infrastructure engineering team, including mentoring, performance support, and day-to-day team management</li>
<li>Strong stakeholder management skills, able to engage confidently with technical and non-technical audiences, translate complexity into clear priorities, and manage competing demands</li>
</ul><div><h3 class="jobSectionHeader">What we'll offer you:</h3>

We trust people to do their best work. That means flexibility over rigid rules, impact over activity, and real investment in your growth both professionally and personally. You'll be part of a supportive, and friendly culture, surrounded by smart, curious people who care deeply about what they do. 
 
We offer flexible working, including hybrid and remote options. Our office hubs are located in Edinburgh, Leeds, Manchester, London and Bulgaria, with occasional travel to client sites or CreateFuture offices when needed.

We trust you to manage your time balancing collaboration with client time and focused work. What matters is the impact you have, not how busy you look.
<h3 class="jobSectionHeader">
Our hiring process</h3>

We try to keep our hiring process clear, fair and respectful of your time. We aim to get back to everyone who applies and we will be upfront about where you are in the process.

It usually looks like this:
<ul>
<li>Call with our Talent Acquisition Team</li>
<li>Role specific capability interview</li>
</ul>
Depending on the role, we might also ask you to do a short presentation, a practical or technical task or have a values focused conversation. We will explain what is involved before anything happens.
<h3 class="jobSectionHeader">
Inclusion at CreateFuture</h3>

We believe diverse teams build better workplaces and better products. We want CreateFuture to be a place where people feel able to be themselves and do their best work.

If you need any adjustments or support during the application process, just. We will do what we can to help.

We look forward to your application!</div></div>

Lead Cloud Platform Engineer

<div>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 &ndash; PDFs, books, Google Docs, news articles, websites &ndash; 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 2025 Design Award winner for Inclusivity.
Today, nearly 200 people around the globe work on Speechify in a 100% distributed setting &ndash; 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.

Overview

We're looking to hire for our Data side of our AI team at Speechify. This role is responsible for all aspects of data collection to support our model training operations. We are able to build high-quality datasets at petabyte-scale and low cost through a tight integration of infrastructure, engineering, and research work. We are looking for a skilled Software Engineer to join us.

What You'll Do
<ul>
<li>Be scrappy to find new sources of audio data and bring it into our ingestion pipeline</li>
<li>Operate and extend the cloud infrastructure for our ingestion pipeline, currently running on GCP and managed with Terraform.</li>
<li>Collaborate closely with our Scientists to shift the cost/throughput/quality frontier, delivering richer data at bigger scale and lower cost to power our next-generation models.</li>
<li>Collaborate with others on the AI Team and Speechify Leadership to craft the AI Team's dataset roadmap to power Speechify's next-generation consumer and enterprise products.</li>
</ul>
An Ideal Candidate Should Have
<ul>
<li>BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science or a related field.</li>
<li>5+ years of industry experience in software development.</li>
<li>Proficiency with bash/Python scripting in Linux environments</li>
<li>Proficiency in Docker and Infrastructure-as-Code concepts and professional experience with at least one major Cloud Provider (we use GCP)</li>
<li>Experience with web crawlers, large-scale data processing workflows is a plus</li>
<li>Ability to handle multiple tasks and adapt to changing priorities.</li>
<li>Strong communication skills, both written and verbal.</li>
</ul>
What we offer
<ul>
<li>A fast-growing environment where you can help shape the company and product.</li>
<li>An entrepreneurial-minded team that supports risk, intuition, and hustle.</li>
<li>A hands-off management approach so you can focus and do your best work.</li>
<li>An opportunity to make a big impact in a transformative industry.</li>
<li>Competitive salaries, a friendly and laid-back atmosphere, and a commitment to building a great asynchronous culture.</li>
<li>Opportunity to work on a life-changing product that millions of people use.</li>
<li>Build products that directly impact and support people with learning differences like dyslexia, ADD, low vision, concussions, autism, and more.</li>
<li>Work in one of the fastest-growing sectors of tech, the intersection of artificial intelligence and audio.</li>
</ul>
Think you're a good fit for this job?

Tell us more about yourself and why you're interested in the role when you apply.
 
And don't forget to include links to your portfolio and LinkedIn.

Not looking but know someone who would make a great fit?

Refer them!

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.</div>

Software Engineer, Data Infrastructure & Acquisition - Leeds, United Kingdom

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