Senior Software Engineer, AI Model serving - Ottawa, Canada

Senior Software Engineer, AI Model Serving - Ottawa, Canada Speechify invites experienced backend engineers to join its AI team in Ottawa. The role focuses on model serving, infrastructure scalability, and end‑to‑end system resilience.

Mission Speechify's mission is to remove barriers to learning by transforming text into audio. Over 50 million people use our products, now recognized by Google and Apple, to read faster and remember more.

Overview As Speechify expands, our AI team needs a Senior Backend Engineer to ensure that our infrastructure scales efficiently, optimize key product flows, and build resilient systems. If you thrive in fast‑paced environments, enjoy strategic thinking, and love turning ideas into user‑facing products, we want to hear from you.

What You'll Do

State‑of‑the‑art voice cloning

Low‑latency, cost‑effective text‑to‑speech pipelines

Ideal Candidate

Proven experience in backend development, especially Python

Direct experience with GCP and knowledge of AWS, Azure, or other cloud providers

Efficiency in ideation and implementation, prioritizing tasks by urgency and impact

Experience with Docker and containerized deployments

Proficiency in deploying high‑availability applications on Kubernetes

Preferred: Experience deploying NLP or TTS models to production

What We Offer

A dynamic environment where your contributions shape the company and its products

A team that values innovation, intuition, and drive

Autonomy fostering focus and creativity

The opportunity to impact a revolutionary industry

Competitive compensation and a welcoming asynchronous culture

The privilege of working on a product that changes lives, especially for people with learning differences such as dyslexia and ADD

An active role at the intersection of AI and audio

Tell us more about yourself and why you’re interested in the role when you apply. Include links to your portfolio and LinkedIn.

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.

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