Lead Engineer, Common Voice

Requirements:

• Passion for developing high quality, high impact products, platforms, and experiences.
• At least 7+ years of progressively responsible professional experience in full stack web development in a product team or product-centric company.
• Experience leading technical decision-making processes and managing and mentoring others.
• An interest in voice technology and/or AI.
• Fluency in HTML/CSS, Node.js, React, Python, MySQL, and TypeScript.

Nice to Haves:

• Experience with data access and pipeline work, including designing and improving infrastructure for ingesting, storing, and transforming data.
• Experience with highly scalable distributed systems hosted on cloud providers (e.g., Google Cloud Platform).
• Infrastructure experience - e.g., with Kubernetes - a strong plus.
• Fluency in web application architecture, including data structures and microservices.
• The ability to translate wireframes, style guides, and design direction into polished, production-ready visual experiences.

What You'll Be Doing:

• Work directly with the Product Director to shape and inform all aspects of the product roadmap
• Translate strategic product requirements into engineering requirements in close collaboration with the other engineers - you will take the lead on deciding architectural direction and clearly weigh the trade-offs between different paths.
• Partner with the Product Manager and Designer to create technical content for PRDs, decide on appropriate ticket articulation, sizing and support allocating tickets between team members.
• Line-manage 2 software engineers, helping them to grow and thrive in their roles.
• Be hands-on with the codebase supporting the Common Voice platform and dataset with a mixture of languages, frameworks, and tooling.

Perks and Benefits:

• Private Medical Insurance
• Extended Sick Leave
• Global Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Retirement Plan contributions
• Paid Time Off: 20 days annual leave + sick days and your birthday
• Company Holidays + Shutdown
• Wellness budget
• Professional Development budget
• Top-up program for Pregnancy and Parental leaves