Backend Engineer

The role

This senior backend focused engineer will build novel AI-driven product experiences and user interfaces on the web. The role involves creating scalable backend systems and owning the entire development cycle of features.

What you will do

• Building novel AI-driven product experiences and user interfaces on the web
• Full-stack engineering, but focused on creating scalable backend systems
• Debugging complex streaming issues
• Owning the entire development cycle of features, from conception to production
• Writing code quickly and shipping frequently to help scale content

Required qualifications

• 5+ years of industry experience working as a Backend Engineer
• Excellent problem-solving and communication skills
• Ability to work independently or as part of a team
• Coach and mentor other engineers
• Strong product sense

Nice to have

• preferably in a fast-paced startup environment
• worked on an app that has been used by 1M users

About the company

Speak is an AI company building a human-level, AI-powered tutor for language learning. It has a distributed team across San Francisco, Seoul, Tokyo, Taipei, and Ljubljana.