Senior Full-Stack Tech Lead, Discovery & Payments

Speak; San Francisco, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Speak is seeking a senior full-stack engineer to lead the Discovery pod, guiding the web acquisition and purchase journey using TypeScript, Next.js/React, Node.js, and PostgreSQL. You’ll translate product goals into solid technical designs and mentor engineers while delivering high-quality, enterprise-ready systems.

You will collaborate with product, design, analytics, Marketing, Sales, and other pods to ensure end-to-end outcomes, while improving architecture, reliability, and observability

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience building high-quality, production-scale web applications.
• Proven track record as technical lead for ambiguous, multi-system initiatives.
• Experience designing APIs and backend services, working with relational data.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the hands-on technical lead for Discovery, from problem framing and architecture through implementation, launch, and production monitoring.
• Design and build full-stack web journeys that help individuals and small teams find, evaluate, purchase, and start using Speak.
• Lead cross-repository integrations across authentication, payments, entitlements, analytics, attribution, CRM, and admin experiences.
• Partner with product, design, analytics, Marketing, Sales, and adjacent engineering pods to define scope and deliver outcomes.
• Set enterprise-ready quality bar for privacy, security, observability, performance, and resilient rollouts.
• Evolve architecture and development patterns incrementally while protecting conversion and revenue across high-traffic funnels.
• Mentor engineers and raise the team’s technical judgment and ownership.

Skills

TypeScript

React

Node.js

Technical leadership

API design

Relational databases

Tools

Next.js

PostgreSQL

Job description

Speak is seeking a senior full-stack engineer to lead the Discovery pod, guiding the web acquisition and purchase journey using TypeScript, Next.js/React, Node.js, and PostgreSQL. You’ll translate product goals into solid technical designs and mentor engineers while delivering high-quality, enterprise-ready systems.

You will collaborate with product, design, analytics, Marketing, Sales, and other pods to ensure end-to-end outcomes, while improving architecture, reliability, and observability