Staff Software Engineer, Speech

Remote: yes Posted: 2026-10-14

- Act as technical lead for the Speech function: set direction, drive architecture decisions, and mentor engineers

- Partner with Research Scientists to take speech models from evaluation to production

- Build and evolve real-time audio capture and streaming in our React/TypeScript web application

- Design and operate the distributed Python backend services that power our speech platform

- Contribute to the infrastructure behind our speech systems

- Debug and improve production reliability and performance using modern observability tools

- Work with Product, UX, and Customer Success to ship features in a high-scale, HIPAA-compliant environment

WHO WE’RE LOOKING FOR

- 7+ years of industry experience developing audio or multimedia software

- Strong full-stack skills: in-depth TypeScript/React and Python

- Experience with browser audio APIs (Web Audio, AudioWorklet) and real-time audio streaming

- Strong experience with WebSockets and real-time client–server communication

- Experience building and operating distributed systems

- Comfortable debugging production issues with observability tools (e.g. Sentry, Grafana)

- Proven technical leadership: mentoring engineers and driving technical direction across a team

- Strong testing practices (unit and integration) and experience on distributed teams

- Experience with FastAPI, SQLAlchemy, and PostgreSQL

- Experience with Infrastructure as code, particularly Terraform

- Experience with ASR/STT, or ML-driven products such as speech recognition or NLP, from model evaluation (e.g. word error rate) through rollout and production monitoring