Software Engineer, iOS Core Product - Cape Town, South Africa

Software Engineer, iOS Core Product - Cape Town, South Africa

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 – PDFs, books, Google Docs, news articles, websites – 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 App of the Day.

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

With the growth of our iOS app, being the #18 productivity app in the App Store category and also our recent recognition as Apple's 2025 Design Award for inclusivity, we find the need for a Senior iOS Engineer to help us support the new user base as well as work on new and exciting projects to push our mission 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.

Opportunity to lead key engineering and product decisions

Actively shipping production code for the Speechify iOS app

Work within a dedicated product team

Participate in product discussions to shape the product roadmap

Maintain and enhance the existing complex app architecture

Experience. You've worked on products that scaled to a large user base

Track record. You have worked on various products from inception to decent traction. You have been responsible for engineering the product

Customer obsession. We expect every team member whose responsibilities directly impact customers to be constantly obsessed about providing the best possible experience

Product thinking. You make thoughtful decisions about the evolution of your product and support internal teams and designers into taking the right direction

Speed. You work quickly to generate ideas and know how to decide which things can ship now and what things need time

Focus. We're a high-growth startup with a busy, remote team. You know how and when to engage or be heads down

Technical skills. Swift, SwiftUI

Swift Programming Language

SwiftUI experience

Experience in Multithreading Programming

Working with CI/CD infrastructure

Experience with Fastlane

SOLID principles, the ability to write every single class according to SOLID

Experience with Git and understanding of different Git strategies

A fast-growing environment where you can help shape the company and product

An entrepreneurial crew that supports risk, intuition, and hustle

The opportunity to make a big impact in a transformative industry

A competitive salary, a collegiate atmosphere, and a commitment to building a great asynchronous culture

Work on a product that millions of people use and where daily feedback includes users sharing that they cried when they first found the product because it was so impactful on their lives

Support people with learning differences like Dyslexia, ADD, Low Vision, Concussions, Autism, and Second Language Learners, and give reading superpowers to professionals all over the world

Work in one of the fastest growing sectors of tech: Intersection of Artificial Intelligence and Audio