### **About us**
**Our mission is to reinvent the way people learn, starting with language. We
begin by teaching the next billion people English, Spanish, and French.**
English is the global language of business, culture, and communication, and
over 1.5 billion people around the world are actively trying to learn right
now. Others dream of communicating with the half-billion native Spanish
speakers across the globe. The problem is that it's nearly impossible to learn
to _speak_ a language without constant access to a speaking partner. Grammar
and vocab apps don't really help – you need to actually _converse_ with
someone.
Speak is on a journey to fix this. We're creating an AI-powered experience
that replicates the flow of a conversation, _without_ needing a human on the
other end. The goal is to make it radically more accessible to be able to have
conversations in a foreign language and eventually help hundreds of millions
of people gain fluency who otherwise wouldn't be able to.
We started on this journey over five years ago and we've still got a long ways
to go. We're thoughtfully adding new team members only when we think they can
truly play a big role in our mission.
Speak launched first in South Korea where we have quickly grown to become the
top grossing education app in the country. We have now delivered this winning
product to more than 30 countries globally and are continuing to expand to
more markets in the coming months. The company is well funded, raising a
recent Series B backed by investors like OpenAI, Founders Fund, Y Combinator,
Khosla Ventures, Lachy Groom, Josh Buckley, and others. We’re a team of 75
based primarily in SF, Seoul, Tokyo, and Ljubljana.
### About this role
We are looking for a full-stack capable engineer to work on our new B2B
offering. 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 business applications. 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.
### **What you’ll be doing**
* Building Speak’s first B2B offering spanning web and app experiences
* 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 offering
### **What we’re looking for**
* 5+ years of industry experience working as a Full Stack Engineer, preferably in a fast-paced startup environment
* Comfortable working with Typescript, React, Node.js, Postgres / relational databases.
* You appreciate balancing doing things the "right way" but also can build things scrappily if necessary
* You enjoy shipping things quickly and frequently
* You're an excellent communicator and enjoy collaborating with people across all functions
### **Why work at Speak**
1. **Join a fantastic, tight-knit team at the right time:** we're growing very quickly, we've raised our Series B and an additional extension 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.
2. **Do your life 's work with people you’ll love working with:** we care strongly about our craft and want every person at Speak to feel like they're growing every day. We believe in the idea that working with people you both enjoy and have respect for makes everything better. We hire thoughtfully and only work with people we admire deeply.
3. **Global in nature:** We're live in over 40 countries and launching in a number of new markets soon. We have dedicated offices in San Francisco, Ljubljana, Seoul, and Tokyo, and you’ll have the opportunity to talk to users in each of these regions on a regular basis as well as travel.
4. **Impact people 's lives in a major way:** Learning a language is one of the single most life-changing skills one can learn, and right now 99% of people never achieve their goal because the process is broken. We’re helping millions of people achieve their goals and improve their lives.
Speak does not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin,
gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions),
sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a
protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other
applicable legally protected characteristics.