Member of Technical Staff, Backend

Vapi Inc.; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Equity ownership

Comprehensive health coverage

Flexible time off

Catered meals

Gym & coaching stipends

Job summary

A leading voice technology company in San Francisco is looking for a backend engineer to own significant projects in voice interface development. The ideal candidate has a strong background in backend engineering and API design, ready to be part of a team that directly impacts the future of voice technology. Competitive salary and excellent equity ownership are offered, along with a flexible working culture promoting a healthy work-life balance.

Qualifications

• Experience with backing engineering and building scalable products.
• Experience in API design and customer interaction at a high level.
• Desire to take ownership of projects from start to finish.

Responsibilities

• Ramp on voice agent pipeline in the first month.
• Own end-to-end large projects and handle customer interactions.
• Design long-lasting APIs that delight customers.

Skills

Backend Engineering

API Design

Product Development

Job description

Vapi (/ˈwɑːpi/):

• We’re creating the shift to voice as humanity’s default interface.

• We’re the most configurable platform for deploying voice agents.

• We’re grown to 400,000 developers in 20 months, adding 2,000+ every day.

• Try talking to Vapi now!

Why We’re Hiring This Role:

• We get a feature request every 30 min.

• We’re hiring a cracked backend engineer to ship a ton more stuff.

What You’ll Do:

• 30 Day: You’ll ramp on our voice agent pipeline. It’s hard and fun.

• 60 Day: You’ll own end-to-end large projects like WhatsApp voice agents or auto RL loop.

• 90 Day: You’ll talk to customers and design APIs that last a century and delight them.

Who You Are:

• You’ve seen Series B to F.

• You’ve built beautiful products that we admire.

• Bonus: You’ve built your own startup.

Why Vapi:

• Generational impact: Build human interface for every business.

• Ownership culture: 90% of company is previous founders.

• Kind team: The founders Jordan and Nikhil are Canadians.

• Tier-1 Investors: YC, KP seed, Bessemer series A.

What We Offer:

• Real stake: We offer competitive salary and excellent equity ownership.

• Comprehensive health coverage: medical, dental, and vision plans.

• Team love: We love hanging out and do quarterly offsites.

• Flexible time off: take what you need.

• More: catered meals and transportation, gym & coaching stipends!