Vapi
Vision
We're creating the shift to voice as humanity's default interface. Why voice? Because voice captures the nuance, the emotion, and the humanity of interactions in ways text alone can't: voice makes technology human again. Mission
We're building the platform for the future of voice technology. Our market edge is extensible, reliable infrastructure designed for the full complexity of voice interactions. 18 months, 150k developers, adding 1000 every day.
Give it a try here The Role
The Senior Backend Engineer 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
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We're creating the shift to voice as humanity's default interface. Why voice? Because voice captures the nuance, the emotion, and the humanity of interactions in ways text alone can't: voice makes technology human again. Mission
We're building the platform for the future of voice technology. Our market edge is extensible, reliable infrastructure designed for the full complexity of voice interactions. 18 months, 150k developers, adding 1000 every day.
Give it a try here The Role
The Senior Backend Engineer 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
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