Senior Backend Engineer, Speak
$170-280k
+ Equity
English language learning app
Open for applications
English language learning app
101-200 employees
Open for applications
$170-280k
+ Equity
101-200 employees
Company mission
To teach the next billion people English and become the de facto way people learn languages.
Role
Who you are
- The ideal candidate will have experience working in close coordination with product, design, and machine learning teams, as well as have a background in building polished consumer applications
- 5+ years of industry experience working as a Backend Engineer, preferably in a fast-paced startup environment
- Bonus: worked on an app that has been used by 1M users
- Excellent problem-solving and communication skills, and the ability to work independently or as part of a team
- Coach and mentor other engineers
- Strong product sense: ability to think broadly/cross-functionally about product experiences
What the job involves
- We are looking for a senior backend focused but full-stack capable engineer to work on building novel AI-powered product experiences
- This role sits at the center of developing our newest products focused on programmatic, conversationally-driven language learning and will be an instrumental contributor to the future of our company
- 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
- You'll be able to write code very quickly, ship frequently, and make a huge impact on our business by helping us scale our content
Our take
As the international language of business, there are many incentives for global entrepreneurs to learn English. With over 1.5 billion people actively learning the language to better their chances in the job market, the customer base for Speak, an AI tutor in the English language is potentially massive.
Investors believe so too, with tens of millions of dollars raised to fund the company from a range of international firms including Korean investors and the Silicon Valley-based OpenAI Fund. This surge of capital will help Speak develop its software and open new markets, especially in the US.
Speak is attempting to break into a human-saturated education market and the success of learning English fluently through its platform is yet to be proven. That being said, it has the potential to become a leading tool specifically in the mobile app sector if it can prove itself as efficient and accessible as the language learning platform DuoLingo.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
22% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Jun 2024
$20m
SERIES B
Jul 2023
$16m
SERIES B
Total funding: $100.4m
Company benefits
- Speak offers all the standard benefits you'd expect at a tech startup, along with stipends for commuting, fitness, and learning!
- In addition, team members are encouraged to travel between offices and we also host an annual company offsite
Company HQ
Potrero Hill, San Francisco, CA
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Leadership
Connor Zwick
(CEO)Previously Advisor at Chegg Inc, CEO at coco Controller, Flascards+ and Freelance Blogger at Envato.
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