Speak
Full-stack Engineer
San Francisco, Remote. Posted 3 months ago
The role
You will serve as the hands-on technical lead for the Discovery pod. You will design and build full-stack web journeys for individuals and small teams to find, evaluate, purchase, and use Speak.
What you will do
- Serve as hands-on technical lead for Discovery from architecture through production monitoring
- Design and build full-stack web journeys for discovery, evaluation, and purchase
- Lead cross-repository integrations for authentication, payments, and analytics
- Partner with product, design, analytics, Marketing, and Sales to deliver outcomes
- Set quality bars for privacy, security, payment correctness, and performance
- Evolve architecture and development patterns while protecting conversion and revenue
- Help the pod operate AI-natively by reviewing plans and enabling AI-assisted contributors
- Mentor engineers and raise the team's bar for technical judgment and ownership
Required qualifications
- 6+ years of experience building high-quality, production-scale web applications
- Strong proficiency in TypeScript, React, and Node.js
- Track record as technical lead for ambiguous, multi-system initiatives
- Experience designing APIs and backend services
- Experience working with relational data
- Strong product and business judgment
- Experience building reliable transactional or stateful workflows
- Excellent cross-functional communication
- Excitement about AI-assisted development
Nice to have
- Deep experience with Next.js and Postgres data modeling
- Experience with web payments, subscriptions, billing, invoicing, or entitlements
- Familiarity with identity and access, B2B account models, roles, or provisioning
- Experience with analytics, attribution, experimentation, CRM, or marketing technology integrations
- Experience building internationalized web products or working across consumer and B2B SaaS surfaces
About the company
Speak is an AI company building a human-level, AI-powered tutor. It is a distributed team with offices in San Francisco, Seoul, Tokyo, Taipei, and Ljubljana.