# Full-stack Engineer 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: Mid level
- Location: San Francisco
- Work setup: Remote
- Pay: $150K to $280K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-08-10
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/speak/de6ed95d-d237-4747-8e96-0aa790ec856d
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/speak-full-stack-engineer/

## About the role

We’re looking for a senior full-stack engineer to serve as the hands-on technical lead for Discovery, the pod that helps motivated learners and small teams discover, try, and buy Speak. You’ll set technical direction across the web acquisition and purchase journey, including public discovery, authentication, checkout, billing, provisioning, and measurement.

## What they're looking for

- 6+ years of experience building high-quality, production-scale web applications, with strong proficiency in TypeScript, React, and Node.js
- A track record as the technical lead for ambiguous, multi-system initiatives, while remaining hands-on in architecture and implementation
- Experience designing APIs and backend services, working with relational data, and reasoning clearly about boundaries between systems
- Strong product and business judgment, with the ability to translate growth or B2B objectives into pragmatic scope, measurable outcomes, and durable technical foundations
- Experience building reliable transactional or stateful workflows, with strong instincts around data integrity, idempotency, observability, and safe rollouts
- Ability to balance building the right way with shipping quickly, learning from real usage, and improving systems incrementally

Tags: Engineering