Our mission is to reinvent the way people learn, starting with language.
Learning a language can change a life by opening doors to new cultures, careers, and communities. Two billion people around the world are actively trying to learn a language, but the best way to learn (one-on-one tutoring) is hard to access at scale and hasn’t been meaningfully improved in decades. Speak is building a human-level, AI-powered tutor in your pocket: a conversation-first experience that lets learners actually speak, get instant feedback, and progress through carefully designed lessons. The result is a complete path from beginner to confident speaker across multiple languages.
Speak first launched in South Korea in 2019, where Speak has now become the number one language learning app, and we now serve learners across many markets and 15+ languages. Speak is one of the world’s leading AI companies, with over $150m raised in venture investment from OpenAI, Accel, Founders Fund, Khosla Ventures, and more, with a distributed team across San Francisco, Seoul, Tokyo, Taipei, and Ljubljana.
About This Role
We’re looking for a senior full-stack engineer to serve as a hands-on technical contributor for Speak for Business, the pod building the enterprise layer of Speak. You’ll work across the B2B product surface — partner portals, reporting, B2B subscription mechanics, admin experiences, and learner features that require an enterprise touch. You’ll work primarily in TypeScript across Node.js and Postgres, partnering with engineers in adjacent pods where experiences cross team boundaries.
You’ll turn product requirements and business goals into clear technical designs, contribute hands-on across the stack, and help set a high bar for architecture, reliability, and code quality on a small, fast-moving team. Near-term work includes B2B onboarding flows, partner-facing reporting, subscription and billing mechanics, and enterprise-ready features that support our growing Sales and CS motion.
What You’ll Be Doing
Building and owning full-stack features across the Speak for Business product surface, including partner portals, admin dashboards, reporting, and B2B subscription workflows
Designing and implementing backend services, APIs, and data models that support multi-tenant enterprise use cases
Leading cross-functional integrations across authentication, entitlements, billing, CRM, and analytics
Partnering closely with product, design, sales, and customer success to define scope and deliver end-to-end outcomes
Setting a high quality bar for privacy, security, observability, data integrity, and safe rollouts
Contributing to an AI-native development workflow — reviewing plans and designs before implementation, creating strong verification loops, and shipping safely with AI-assisted tooling
Mentoring engineers and raising the team’s bar for technical judgment and ownership
What We’re Looking For
6+ years of experience building production-scale web applications, with strong proficiency in TypeScript, Node.js, and SQL databases (Postgres preferred)
Full-stack capability — comfortable across both frontend and backend, with solid database fundamentals
Experience with or strong interest in B2B SaaS, enterprise product surfaces, or multi-tenant systems
Strong product and business judgment, with the ability to translate enterprise requirements into pragmatic scope and durable technical foundations
Experience designing APIs and backend services, reasoning clearly about system boundaries, and working with relational data
Ability to work autonomously and adapt quickly on a small team with low meeting overhead and high ownership expectations
Excellent cross-functional communication and a collaborative working style
Excitement about AI-assisted development, paired with thoughtful verification and a high production-quality bar
Nice to have:
Experience with multi-tenant B2B SaaS, SSO/SAML, billing, invoicing, or entitlements
Familiarity with admin dashboards, reporting, or analytics integrations
Experience with B2B account models, roles, or provisioning
CRM or marketing technology integrations
Experience building for both consumer and B2B surfaces
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.
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.
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, Tokyo, and Taipei, and you’ll have the opportunity to talk to users in each of these regions on a regular basis as well as travel.
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.
Skills Required
- 6+ years of experience building production-scale web applications
- Strong proficiency with TypeScript
- Strong proficiency with Node.js
- Experience with SQL databases, preferably PostgreSQL
- Full-stack capability across frontend and backend
- Solid database fundamentals
- Experience with or strong interest in B2B SaaS, enterprise product surfaces, or multi-tenant systems
- Experience designing APIs and backend services
- Ability to reason about system boundaries and relational data
- Ability to work autonomously and adapt quickly on a small team
- Excellent cross-functional communication and collaborative working style
- Interest in AI-assisted development with thoughtful verification and production-quality standards
- Experience with multi-tenant B2B SaaS, SSO/SAML, billing, invoicing, or entitlements
- Familiarity with admin dashboards, reporting, or analytics integrations
- Experience with B2B account models, roles, or provisioning
- CRM or marketing technology integration experience
- Experience building both consumer and B2B products
Speak Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Speak and has not been reviewed or approved by Speak.
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Healthcare Strength — Healthcare coverage is described as including medical, dental, and vision insurance, indicating a comprehensive core offering. Feedback suggests these plans are positioned as a standard part of the package across sources.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Unlimited PTO and parental leave are consistently listed, signaling broad time-off options. Feedback suggests these policies are intended to support flexibility and work-life balance.
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Flexible Benefits — Monthly wellness and language-learning stipends, along with company offsites and travel opportunities, point to a flexible and modern perks mix. Feedback suggests these extras complement the core benefits for a well-rounded package.
Speak Insights
What We Do
Speak is a language learning app that sets users on the path to fluency with the world’s most advanced AI tutor. Built on the core learning philosophy of getting users speaking out loud as much as possible, Speak's AI language-learning experience encourages dynamic two-way dialogue through personalized content and real-time speech recognition. Speak was founded by Connor Zwick and Andrew Hsu in 2016 to democratize access to high quality language education through AI. Backed by Y Combinator, Open AI, Founders Fund, Khosla Ventures, Matrix Partners and more, Speak is a series B startup with a global presence and offices in San Francisco, Seoul, Tokyo, and Ljubljana. Featured by Apple as the ‘App of the Day’ and ‘Best New App’, Speak is hiring across the globe. Come join us as we teach the next billion people English and reinvent the way the world learns, staring with language







