Senior Software Engineer, Core Experiences - Brighton, United Kingdom

Role overview

A fast-scaling text-to-speech platform is hiring a senior engineer to join its Core Experiences team based in Brighton, United Kingdom. The position sits at the crossroads of product and infrastructure, owning the foundational services and SDKs that power an audio reading experience across web and mobile. It is a strong fit for someone who enjoys designing clean APIs, simplifying complex systems, and thinking strategically about how technical decisions shape the user experience.

Responsibilities

- Partner with product teams to scope projects, trim scope for faster customer feedback, and weigh integration against UX tradeoffs - Ship capabilities through a cross-platform SDK consumed across multiple products - Improve existing features for faster load times and smarter parsing by refining abstractions and algorithms - Build and operate cloud functions, lightweight backend services, and background jobs in Kotlin - Contribute to architectural choices that keep services dependable and easy to evolve

Requirements

- Strong systems thinking, with an end-to-end view of how changes ripple across services and a bias toward simplicity - Ability to move quickly, generate options, and decide what can ship now versus what needs more time - Comfort working autonomously inside a busy, remote-first team, knowing when to engage and when to stay heads-down - Collaborative instincts for working alongside opinionated designers, marketers, and product managers - Hands-on Kotlin Multiplatform experience; general Java background is acceptable

Nice to have

- Prior experience deploying on Google Cloud Platform

Benefits and work setup

- Hands-off management style that lets engineers focus and do their best work - Entrepreneurial culture that rewards risk-taking, intuition, and hustle - Friendly, laid-back atmosphere with a strong emphasis on asynchronous collaboration - Chance to build a product used by millions, including readers with dyslexia, ADHD, low vision, concussions, autism, and other learning differences - Work at the intersection of artificial intelligence and audio, one of the fastest-growing sectors in tech