Software Engineer, Cloud Engineer - Software, DevOps

We're looking an enthusiastic Software Engineer to join our software engineering team at the heart of Speechmatics' products, responsible for designing and building the systems that seamlessly connect our AI transcription models. This role focuses on creating efficient, resilient, and scalable architectures that enable our technology to perform at its best. You’ll work closely with talented engineers across multiple disciplines, collaborating to solve complex problems and deliver impactful solutions.

No background in audio or speech is required; we value strong engineering fundamentals, curiosity, and a collaborative mindset. If you enjoy building robust systems and working with others to create outstanding technology, this role offers impact globally today.

• Being an integral part of the team! We’re a tight-knit group, and the tech we own is interconnected with many other teams, so you'll have a huge opportunity to positively influence engineering practices and our overall product.
• Owning initiatives to continuously improving the system architecture, performance, stability, and feature set of our product. We already have best-in-class technology, and we’re always innovating and further breaking boundaries.
• Working with a variety of tools and technologies, and collaborating with a team of talented engineers, to solve complex problems. There are endless learning opportunities, and we have regular syncs to share ideas.
• Making a significant difference to our customers by ensuring that our best-in-class speech recognition technology always runs quickly and stably in a variety of real-life scenarios.
• Shaping our team culture: joining in knowledge sharing across engineering teams, improve technical documentation, mentor other engineers, and encourage best engineering practices.

• You’re a collaborative team player. Our team works closely with several other teams, and we proactively reach out to each other to solve complex problems.
• You love to learn, and you have an open mind to new ideas. You enjoy continuously growing your own abilities, as well as helping others around you improve, too. You are able to adapt to new technologies, tools, and domains.
• You’re pragmatic, and able to balance “doing things right” with “doing things quickly,” depending on the context. You can navigate short‑term changes in priorities as we work towards longer‑term goals.
• You’re passionate about creating high quality software and enjoy the exploratory process of improving performance, stability, and maintainability of the tech you work with, no matter where a problem lies.
• You feel comfortable developing software in production Python, and you’re interested or experienced in working with some of the other technologies we use: C++, Go, Docker, Kubernetes, Gitlab, developing in a Linux environment. Experience with or interest in learning machine learning concepts and systems will be consider a plus.
• You can own the full software development lifecycle end to end, from feature design and implementation through release. This includes monitoring automated and overnight test results, validating that product performance meets established standards, and continuously improving build, test, and release pipelines.

Speechmatics is the leading expert in Speech Intelligence, and uses AI and Machine Learning to unlock business value in human speech worldwide. We work with an amazing mix of global companies, and our technology can integrate into our customers stack irrespective of their industry or use case – making it the go‑to solution to harness useful information from speech.

Joining us means working with some of the smartest minds around the world, focused on cutting‑edge projects and deploying the latest techniques to disrupt the market. We believe in putting people first; we’ll do all we can to help you develop your skills and give you the tools you need to thrive. Our Focus Fridays give you an undisturbed day of focus, offset with Together Tuesdays when we have our team meetings, so you've always got the right balance.

We have structured a hybrid approach that includes 2‑3 designated office…