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Founding Senior Engineer (Backend)
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Founding Senior Engineer (Backend) at Vapi (W21)
$100K - $220K
•
0.20% - 0.70%
Voice AI for developers.
San Francisco, CA, US
Full-time
3+ years
Apply now
About Vapi
Voice AI for developers About the role
Skills:
JavaScript, Kubernetes, Node.js, Rust, TypeScript
Company Overview
Apple Intelligence and Google Gemini are about to onboard 4 billion people to voice assistants that actually talk like people. This marks a new beginning for voice as the world’s default interface. We will
all
want voice
everywhere . Businesses are not ready. Products are not ready. We’re building the infrastructure that helps developers close the gap between the raw model and voice AI in production.
Give it a try here
. We
launched in March , scaled revenue, and raised this past week. We’re a small team of 6 and growing. We're building out the founding team in-person in SF to scale what’s working. 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. Outcomes
Own and deliver entire features + projects
Ship a pre-scoped feature within the first 7 days Ship a feature independently within the first 30 days
Ship optimizations and refactors
Ship a pre-scoped optimization or refactor within the first 14 days
Ex. improve the latency of a component of the speech-to-speech pipeline
Ship an optimization independently within the first 30 days
Ex. refactor a tool-calling mechanism to make it more deterministic
Talk to customers
Receive a request from 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 customers
Unprompted, delight a customer within the first 30 days (ex. call analytics endpoint)
Competencies
Experience 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 company
5+ years experience in Full-Stack / Backend Software Engineering Apply now #J-18808-Ljbffr
$100K - $220K
•
0.20% - 0.70%
Voice AI for developers.
San Francisco, CA, US
Full-time
3+ years
Apply now
About Vapi
Voice AI for developers About the role
Skills:
JavaScript, Kubernetes, Node.js, Rust, TypeScript
Company Overview
Apple Intelligence and Google Gemini are about to onboard 4 billion people to voice assistants that actually talk like people. This marks a new beginning for voice as the world’s default interface. We will
all
want voice
everywhere . Businesses are not ready. Products are not ready. We’re building the infrastructure that helps developers close the gap between the raw model and voice AI in production.
Give it a try here
. We
launched in March , scaled revenue, and raised this past week. We’re a small team of 6 and growing. We're building out the founding team in-person in SF to scale what’s working. 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. Outcomes
Own and deliver entire features + projects
Ship a pre-scoped feature within the first 7 days Ship a feature independently within the first 30 days
Ship optimizations and refactors
Ship a pre-scoped optimization or refactor within the first 14 days
Ex. improve the latency of a component of the speech-to-speech pipeline
Ship an optimization independently within the first 30 days
Ex. refactor a tool-calling mechanism to make it more deterministic
Talk to customers
Receive a request from 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 customers
Unprompted, delight a customer within the first 30 days (ex. call analytics endpoint)
Competencies
Experience 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 company
5+ years experience in Full-Stack / Backend Software Engineering Apply now #J-18808-Ljbffr