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title: 'Senior Product Engineer at HappyScribe'
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# Senior Product Engineer at HappyScribe

- **Company:** HappyScribe
- **Location:** Barcelona, Spain
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-11-03
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-06
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/happyscribe.com/5ebbd0e9-6b36-438a-8c03-04ac9f95fc71

## Job description

Hello ✨ We’re [HappyScribe](https://www.happyscribe.com/), a profitable, 100% bootstrapped AI company based in Barcelona. We built one of the web’s most accurate multilingual transcription platforms, trusted by hundreds of thousands of users each month. That product funds our freedom to create what’s next—no investors, no burn rate, just focus. Now we’re taking that same tech and expertise to a bigger frontier: turning conversations into intelligence. We’re building the layer where speech becomes memory, insights become action, and teams work with more clarity and speed. You’d be joining a team of ~17 people, close-knit and pragmatic. Some of us are scaling a mature, revenue-generating platform. Others are prototyping new products that push the limits of speech and agentic AI. We move fast but think long-term. There’s room here to shape, ship, and own real products — not pitch decks.

About the role: You’ll join the Engagement pod, which owns our web app, and our mobile and desktop recording apps. You’ll work in a small team with Matej, Eduard and a designer, and report to Ignasi, our CPTO. You’ll own a product area from day one.

## What you’ll do

- Own Engagement features end to end, across our Rails backend and our React web, React Native mobile and Electron desktop apps
- Decide with your designer what to build, then prototype it, ship it with coding agents, and prove it works with evidence
- Grow our design system and component library together with the designer
- Make architecture calls across the stack, review other people’s work and raise the pod’s bar

## What we’re looking for

- You’ve been full-stack in production. You’ve shipped both backend and frontend code that real users rely on
- You’re AI-first. You use coding agents every day, and they write all of your code
- You build things in your own time. Big or small, we want to see it
- You’ve shipped at least one cross-platform mobile or desktop app
- You’ve worked on a design system or component library
- You have product judgment. You can partner with a designer and prototype without waiting for mockups or a PM
- You’re comfortable with ambiguity and get moving without full specs
- You check quality with evidence, not by reviewing every line
- 5+ years of experience and fluent English

Nice to have, but you can learn it here: Ruby on Rails (solid experience in another server-side framework is fine), and whichever of mobile or desktop you haven’t done yet.

Company Culture

- 🤝 A company culture built on trust, autonomy, and independence
- 🤲 Hybrid set-up - Our setup is hybrid and built on trust. We come together in our Barcelona office for the things that are better in person, and protect focus time wherever you work best.
- ⏱️ Flexible working hours — Work on the schedule that makes you the happiest and productive.[Here's more info.](https://happyscribe.notion.site/Working-Hours-e42a20fa56884ce8ad6c893b33d62852)
- 🏰 Barcelona office (Gràcia) — More than a desk. A creative hub. Your space for collaboration and community.
- 🌏 International & English-fluent — Global team, fully inclusive conversations.

What we offer...

- 💰 Competitive salary — our salaries are in the top percentiles of the Barcelona startup scene.
- 📈 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.
- 🤖 Generous token spend policy — We expect our team members to work at the frontier of what's possible with AI. We expect spending, not saving, at the moment
- 🏖️ 30 days holiday allowance — Recharge whenever you need to.
- 🍏 Health coverage — [Alan](https://alan.com/es-es) partnership covers half your medical insurance, anywhere you are.
- 💳 Tax-smart savings — [Cobee by Pluxee](https://www.pluxee.es/productos/) for meals, transport, nursery. Keep more of what you earn.

## About HappyScribe

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: HappyScribe is a bootstrapped, AI-powered platform that provides transcription, subtitling, translation, and AI meeting notes in 150+ languages for businesses and individuals.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Bootstrapped, profitable)
- **Headquarters**: Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
- **Founded**: 2017
- **Founders**: André Bastié (CEO) and Marc Assens Reina (CTO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: AI-powered transcription, subtitling, translation, and meeting notes (Information Technology & Services)
- **Target customers**: B2B (enterprise, SMB, media, research, legal, HR) and B2C (journalists, students, content creators)
- **Mission**: To build the #1 Audiovisual Platform by combining AI with trusted language experts to produce high-quality transcriptions, subtitles, and closed captions at speed.

## Products & Services
- **AI Transcription**: Fast, automated transcription of audio/video files in 150+ languages with up to 99% accuracy on clear audio. Includes speaker identification, word-level timestamps, and an online editor. Exports to DOCX, PDF, TXT, SRT, VTT.
- **AI Notetaker**: An AI agent that connects to Google Calendar/Outlook and automatically joins Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, and Zoom calls to capture transcripts, summaries, highlights, and action items in 150+ languages.
- **AI Subtitles & Translation**: Automatic subtitle generation and translation of transcripts/subtitles between 150+ languages in one click.
- **Human Transcription & Subtitling**: Professional human-made service for 99%+ guaranteed accuracy on difficult audio, multiple speakers, or broadcast-ready subtitles.
- **Mobile App (iOS & Android)**: Record, transcribe, and review audio on the go, with offline recording capability.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (bootstrapped, profitable)
- **Key Metric**: Annual Revenue estimated between $1M - $5M (LinkedIn estimate); company is profitable with "infinite runway" and no investment pressure.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: None (100% bootstrapped, no external investors)
- **Growth Signals**: 6M+ users and 41,000+ teams served; operates in 30 countries; SOC 2 Type II certified and GDPR compliant; launched a new Gen 2 AI model with an 8% word error rate drop; introduced a "Chat" feature for querying transcripts; launched a mobile app.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Bootstrapped & Profitable**: Zero external funding means no pressure to grow unsustainably; the company prioritizes profitability and long-term thinking.
- **AI + Human Hybrid Model**: Offers both fast AI transcription (up to 99% accuracy) and optional human-made service (99%+ accuracy) on the same platform, covering a wider range of customer needs than pure-AI competitors.
- **Multilingual Depth**: Supports 150+ languages and accents, with translation between them, making it a strong global solution.
- **European Security & Compliance**: SOC 2 Type II certified, GDPR compliant, with EU data residency and AES-256 encryption, a key differentiator for European enterprises.
- **Bootstrapped Independence**: No external investors means full control over product roadmap and company culture.

## Strategic Focus
- **Turning conversations into intelligence**: Moving beyond transcription to build a layer where meetings become memory, ideas become action, and teams work with more clarity and speed.
- **Agentic AI**: Prototyping new products that push the limits of speech and agentic AI.
- **Product Expansion**: Growing the AI Notetaker and mobile app, improving AI model accuracy (Gen 2 model), and adding features like "Chat" to query transcripts.
- **Global Reach**: Continuing to serve a multilingual, international customer base across 30+ countries.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: A close-knit, pragmatic team of ~20 people (per LinkedIn, though other sources cite ~104 total including contractors/global team). Values trust, autonomy, and independence. Described as "small team of bright people" that moves fast but thinks long-term.
- **Work Model**: In-person culture with an 80/20 rule (80% in the Barcelona office, 20% remote). The office is in the Gràcia neighborhood, described as a lively, creative space.
- **Benefits**: 30 days vacation, private health insurance (Alan), flexible working hours, equity, visa sponsorship and relocation help, 1 book/month + learning budget, monthly savings plan (Cobee), team retreats (Paris, Copenhagen, Mallorca, Pyrenees, Aran Islands, Dublin, Sweden).
- **Engineering Culture**: International, English-only speaking environment. Focus on building a mature, revenue-generating platform while prototyping new products with agentic AI.
- **Team Size**: ~20 core team members in Barcelona (with a larger global network of ~104 including contractors/remote staff across 30 countries).
- **Diversity**: 50% female employees.

## Sources
1. [happyscribe.com](https://www.happyscribe.com/)
2. [linkedin.com](https://es.linkedin.com/company/happyscribe)
3. [happyscribe.com/newsroom](https://www.happyscribe.com/newsroom)
4. [jobs.ashbyhq.com](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/happyscribe.com/b9f5e43f-fa62-4151-9ab9-e4c668bf5326)
5. [welcometothejungle.com](https://app.welcometothejungle.com/companies/Happy-Scribe)

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