Growth Engineer

The role

This is a hands-on backend engineering role focused on the technical engine behind customer discovery, adoption, and growth. You will own the backend development and health of the Speechmatics website and self-serve portal.

What you will do

• Own the backend development and ongoing health of the Speechmatics website and self-serve portal
• Build and maintain new custom components from scratch
• Manage Vercel deployments and backend infrastructure
• Implement UI design changes end-to-end
• Write Python-based queries to surface insights across the self-serve portal
• Identify and act on opportunities to improve conversion across the self-serve funnel
• Collaborate closely with product, design, and data teams in an async-friendly way
• Own the ongoing improvement of site performance, loading speed, and technical reliability

Required qualifications

• Proficiency in JavaScript and TypeScript for website backend development
• Track record of shipping and maintaining production code
• Hands-on Python experience, particularly for data queries
• Demonstrable experience with LLM and AI-first development workflows, tools like Claude, Cursor, or similar
• Experience in a product-led growth or self-serve SaaS environment
• Understanding of conversion funnels and how engineering choices affect them
• Ability to operate with significant autonomy
• Exceptionally strong communication skills
• Pragmatic, shipping-first mindset
• Experience managing and deploying to platforms like Vercel, or equivalent modern hosting and deployment infrastructure

Benefits

• Training and development support
• Incredibly flexible working
• Regular company lunches
• Birthday celebrations
• Private Medical
• Dental for you and your family
• Global working opportunities
• Generous holiday allowance
• Pension/401K matching
• Working from home allowance for tech or home office equipment
• Choice of laptop and accessories
• Parental leave support including adoption assistance and reproductive health services

About the company

Speechmatics is the leading expert in Speech Intelligence, using AI and Machine Learning to unlock business value in human speech worldwide. They focus on cutting-edge projects and deploying the latest techniques to disrupt the market.