Staff Android Engineer, Speak

$210-260k

+ Equity

Java

Kotlin

Jenkins

Bitrise

MVC

Senior and Expert level

San Francisco Bay Area

English language learning app

Open for applications

English language learning app

101-200 employees

B2CArtificial IntelligenceLanguagesLearningMobile

Open for applications

$210-260k

+ Equity

Java

Kotlin

Jenkins

Bitrise

MVC

Senior and Expert level

San Francisco Bay Area

101-200 employees

B2CArtificial IntelligenceLanguagesLearningMobile

Company mission

To teach the next billion people English and become the de facto way people learn languages.

Job

Company

Role

Who you are

8+ years of industry experience working as a Mobile Engineer, preferably in a fast-paced startup environment
Bonus: worked on an app that has been used by 1M users
Proficiency in Kotlin, with a strong understanding of common mobile architectures including MVC/MVVM
Bonus: Experience in Jetpack Compose
Bonus: Experience in mobile streaming technologies (websockets, ll-hls)
Reactive programming(RX Java, etc)
Knowledgable in mobile build practices(eg jenkins, bitrise)
Knowledgable in Google Play Billing
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

As an Android Engineer on Speak’s engineering team, you will be responsible for a variety of features including improving how we serve our content, run A/B tests on monetization features, support launching of new markets and new languages.
You will collaborate closely with backend engineers and our partners in Product and Design. You’ll be responsible for shipping product features to millions of users
Build growth loops -> referrals, in-app shareables, Speak on web
Improve new user acquisition and user retention
Pricing and packaging
Launch new markets and languages
Improving our text to speech system
Improving our audio and video streaming systems

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

Company

Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)

Dec 2024

$78m

SERIES C

Jun 2024

$20m

SERIES B

Total funding: $165.8m

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

Leadership

Connor Zwick

(CEO)

Previously Advisor at Chegg Inc, CEO at coco Controller, Flascards+ and Freelance Blogger at Envato.

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