Senior Software Engineer, Happy Scribe

• You have a solid background as a Software Engineer and enjoy working in a Full Stack role, focusing approximately 70% on backend and 30% on frontend tasks
• You're product focused. You want to listen to customers, and build the product that will solve their needs
• You care about the business implications of anything you build. You don't go after the shiny stuff, but see it as a balance of craft, speed, and the bottom line
• You love steep learning curves, and are not afraid to learn about subjects that are outside of the comfort zone. For example, you can learn most technologies as you go. You're pragmatic about them, it's about the tools and tradeoffs, not ideologies
• You care about information security and design things with security in mind
• You are excited about our engineering principles. Or at least curious about them, if they seem very different from what you've been doing in the past
• You’re a great mentor, able to share your knowledge and upskill other team members. Bonus points if you have experience helping a junior engineer stretch their skills and learn fast
• We have a language-agnostic approach to code and believe the best engineers can code in any language. Our stack is in Ruby on Rails and React, but it's not a requirement that you know how to work with them. We like to work with people who are more interested in the problem they're solving than in the language they're using to solve it. We use Heroku for infrastructure and AWS as a cloud

• Build product features from start to finish. You'll wear many hats during the creation process while you conceive, design, implement, ship and maintain them — think features to improve the editing experience.
• Build the scalable infrastructure needed for the transcription of the future — like identifying coupling and extracting concerns into small and scalable services.
• Improve the performance, reliability, and efficiency of our systems — for example finding bottlenecks in the transcription pipeline and optimizing them to reduce overall turnaround time.
• Design and implement processes and internal tools with simplicity and productivity in mind — such as a tool to sync valuable user feedback with the internal database.

• Step 1 - TA Screening Call - 20-35 minute video call with our talent team to dive deeper into your skillset
• Step 2 - First Tech Interview. 60 minutes with a Senior Engineer from our team; we will focus on several key areas that are crucial for the Senior Software Engineer position
• Step 3 - Second Tech Interview. 60-90 minutes. Live coding interview with 2 of our engineers, focused on a real world problem you might actually need to solve at Happy Scribe. No take home exercises or preparation required
• Step 4 - Values and Meet The Team. 60 minutes with a co-founder and another team member followed by another 45 minutes to meet some of the amazing people you’d be working with to help you know if you want to join our team

• ✨ Have an impact on millions of people — Change how users and language professionals make transcriptions, translations and subtitles
• 👫 Work with a small team of bright people — When we talk with most people, they have a hard time understanding how we got so far with so few people. We're close in ARR to a typical Series B company, but our ARR per employee is 10x the industry average
• 🤝 A company culture built on trust, autonomy, and independence
• 📈 Equity — By joining the company when the team is so small, you’re helping us set the foundations of our future success. We're asking you to come on an adventure, so if we find a treasure, we want you to get a piece
• 🧠 Mental health support — We have partnered with [Oliva](https://olivahealth.app/) to offer you the best mental health support, from day 1. You can access 1-1 online therapy as often as you need to and it’s 100% confidential
• ⏱️Flexible working hours — Work on the schedule that makes you the most happy and productive
• 🏖️ 30 days vacation time — So you can recharge your batteries whenever you need to, without having to count the days
• 🌏 €1,000 per year travel bonus — We live in a distributed world where most people have friends and family spread around the globe. We don’t want finances or distances to get in the way of spending time with the people you care about. This perk will help you stay closer to them
• 📚 1 book/mo + e-learning platforms, conferences or courses of your choice — We truly want you to learn
• 👩‍👩‍👦 👨‍👧‍👦 Parent and family planning friendly - If you’re already a parent, you can set a schedule that plans your work around your family, not the other way round. If you’re soon to be a parent, we will support you to take full maternity and paternity leave; this also counts for adoption. If you need a phased return to work or extra paid time off, we can offer this
• 🌈 Gender inclusive - We offer paid time off for anyone transitioning, undergoing hormonal treatment, or going through natural hormonal imbalances like menopause
• 🍽️ In-Person culture — We believe nothing beats the magic of great people working together in person, in and outside of working hours. Expect meaningful, laughter-filled conversations over shared meals and team-building activities.
• 🏰 Beautiful office in Gràcia, Barcelona — Our offices are much more than just a place to work. We like to see them alive 24/7, filled with friends and creative activities. Want to organize a community event, a rooftop concert, a BBQ with other designers, developers, etc.? The place is yours. Office pool included
• 🚚 Visa sponsorship and Relocation help — We want to work with the best people, regardless of where they're from. We'll help with your relocation costs and getting set up in Barcelona and will sponsor your visa if needed
• ✈️ Annual Team Retreats — So far we've been to Paris, Mallorca, the Pyrenees, Aran Islands, Dublin, and Sweden, where we had a small island to ourselves!
• 💻 The hardware and desk equipment that you need to be most productive.

Transcription and subtitling services are required in many different industries to support today’s international business landscape, and whilst this sounds simple, it is often difficult to find an effective solution. Whilst there are many transcription and subtitling services online, they are usually expensive when accurate, inaccurate when cheap, and lack the tools that companies need to apply them effectively.