Hello ✨

We're Happy Scribe, a 100% bootstrapped and profitable startup with 300k monthly users, based in Barcelona. We are on a mission to break language barriers globally and bring audiovisual content to all.

We are building the #1 Audiovisual Platform by combining state-of-the-art AI with trusted language experts to produce ****high-quality transcriptions, subtitles, and closed captions at speed.

We're 35 people at the moment, and we're building the team thoughtfully and with a lot of care.

Chance are, if you’re on this page, you might be interested in one of our open or upcoming positions.

For decades transcription at scale has been almost impossible, now with the advancement of ASR technology we are on the verge of having computers that understand speech better than humans. Today, almost all the infrastructure is in place but we'll need remarkable engineering to pull it off.

What will be your mission as an Engineer at Happy Scribe?

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.

This might be for you if...

You have at least 2+ years experience as a Software Engineer.
You’re happy working in a Full Stack role that is about 70% backend and 30% frontend
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 get things done. There are lots of people who are really excited about tons of things. Only some of those are excited about completing things.
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 care about information security and design things with security in mind.
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.