Senior Full-Stack Tech Lead, Discovery & Payments

Speak

San Francisco, Northern (CA, KY)

Hybrid

USD 180,000 - 240,000

Full time

14 days+
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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

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