Vapi Dashboard
Founding Senior Engineer (Backend)
Vapi Dashboard, San Francisco, California, United States, 94199
Mission
The Senior Engineer (Backend) will own features end-to-end from customer requests to their deployment, building on a modular API-first architecture, working within real-time low-latency constraints. You’ll also be a foundational part of how we build the culture at Vapi.OutcomesOwn and deliver entire features + projectsShip a pre-scoped feature within the first 7 days
Ship a feature independently within the first 30 days
Ship optimizations and refactorsShip a pre-scoped optimization or refactor within the first 14 daysEx. improve the latency of a component of the speech-to-speech pipeline
Ship an optimization independently within the first 30 daysEx. refactor a tool-calling mechanism to make it more deterministic
Talk to customersReceive a request from the Support team and ship the fix within the first 14 days
Pick up customer threads unprompted, investigate, and solve within the first 14 days
Build things that delight customersUnprompted, delight a customer within the first 30 days (ex. call analytics endpoint)
CompetenciesExperience with Typescript + Node or similar backend framework
Communication: You can clearly articulate what you’re thinking
and
feeling
Cracked-ness: You’re more cracked than the most cracked person on the team
Startup Ready: You have a reason to be here and can make sacrifices for something uncertain
Founder Juice: New ideas come from you, you build it yourself or annoy everyone until it’s done ;)
Qualifications:Previous Founding/Senior/Staff/Principal Engineer
1+ years of experience at a company with less than 100 people
5+ years of experience in Full-Stack / Backend Software Engineering
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The Senior Engineer (Backend) will own features end-to-end from customer requests to their deployment, building on a modular API-first architecture, working within real-time low-latency constraints. You’ll also be a foundational part of how we build the culture at Vapi.OutcomesOwn and deliver entire features + projectsShip a pre-scoped feature within the first 7 days
Ship a feature independently within the first 30 days
Ship optimizations and refactorsShip a pre-scoped optimization or refactor within the first 14 daysEx. improve the latency of a component of the speech-to-speech pipeline
Ship an optimization independently within the first 30 daysEx. refactor a tool-calling mechanism to make it more deterministic
Talk to customersReceive a request from the Support team and ship the fix within the first 14 days
Pick up customer threads unprompted, investigate, and solve within the first 14 days
Build things that delight customersUnprompted, delight a customer within the first 30 days (ex. call analytics endpoint)
CompetenciesExperience with Typescript + Node or similar backend framework
Communication: You can clearly articulate what you’re thinking
and
feeling
Cracked-ness: You’re more cracked than the most cracked person on the team
Startup Ready: You have a reason to be here and can make sacrifices for something uncertain
Founder Juice: New ideas come from you, you build it yourself or annoy everyone until it’s done ;)
Qualifications:Previous Founding/Senior/Staff/Principal Engineer
1+ years of experience at a company with less than 100 people
5+ years of experience in Full-Stack / Backend Software Engineering
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