Software Engineer

We're building the future of Speech Intelligence at Speechmatics, and we need someone who can own the technical engine behind how customers discover, adopt, and grow with our platform. This is a hands-on backend engineering role, where your work directly shapes the journey from a customer's first interaction with our website to their first meaningful moment of value. If you thrive shipping, iterating, and making a measurable commercial difference, then we’d love to hear from you. 

What you'll do 

• Own the backend development and ongoing health of the Speechmatics website and self-serve portal

• Build and maintain new custom components from scratch, turning design specifications into reliable, performant, production-ready code

• Manage Vercel deployments and backend infrastructure, keeping the live site fast, stable, and technically sound

• Implement UI design changes end-to-end, bridging the gap between what's designed and what goes live

• Write Python-based queries to surface insights across the self-serve portal and support data-driven decisions across the team

• Identify and act on opportunities to improve conversion across the self-serve funnel through well-timed, well-designed product experiences

• Collaborate closely with product, design, and data teams in a cross-functional, async-friendly way, working closely together to remove blockers and unlock opportunities

• Own the ongoing improvement of site performance, loading speed, and technical reliability 

What you'll need 

• Proficiency in JavaScript and TypeScript for website backend development, with a track record of shipping and maintaining production code

• Hands-on Python experience, particularly for data queries

• Demonstrable experience with LLM and AI-first development workflows, tools like Claude, Cursor, or similar 

• Experience in a product-led growth or self-serve SaaS environment, with a clear understanding of conversion funnels and how engineering choices affect them

• The ability to operate with significant autonomy, you’ll thrive with ambiguity and finding creative solutions  

• Exceptionally strong communication skills, with a habit of being proactive, transparent, and thorough in async and cross-functional settings

• A pragmatic, shipping-first mindset, you default to iterating in production

• Experience managing and deploying to platforms like Vercel, or equivalent modern hosting and deployment infrastructure