# Engineering Manager, Infrastructure / Platform at Speak

- Company: Speak
- What the company does: Speak is the first & only app that lets you get real conversational practice without needing a live tutor on the other end. And we build some serious AI tech to make that possible. Backed by Accel, Khosla and Y Combinator.
- Company website: https://www.speak.com/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Senior
- Location: San Francisco
- Work setup: Remote
- Pay: $220K to $300K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-04-10
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/speak/17a11bb2-85f9-48c4-92a8-fbc57c3be5bf
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/speak-engineering-manager-infrastructure-platform/

## About the role

Join a fantastic, tight-knit team at the right time: we're growing very quickly, we've most recently raised our Series C from some of the top investors in the valley, and we've achieved product-market fit in our initial markets. You'd join at a magical time when a single person could significantly change the course of the company.

## What they're looking for

- 8+ years of IC software engineering experience on fast-paced, high performance teams
- 4+ years of direct team management experience
- Strong backend, systems, platform/infra, or performance background
- Deeply technical and building faster than ever with coding agents
- High agency but low ego
- Strong conviction that 10x engineering output is possible with agentic tools and practices

Tags: Engineering