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Posted 3 weeks agoMember of Technical Staff, Backend
at Vapi
San Francisco, United StatesRemote
TypeScript$10,000
Responsibilities
- Build real assistants on Vapi across our main provider integrations (LLMs, STT, TTS, telephony).
Requirements
- Voice AI that resolves, not transfers.
- By 60 Days: - Own a product area outright within the agent self-improvement loop or the trust and guardrails platform. - Drive a feature from spec to ship with PM and design, including the eval and rollout loops. - Use AI coding agents (Claude Code, Cursor, or similar) as a serious lever on your throughput.
- WHO YOU ARE Must-Haves - 5+ years building product, with 2+ at an early-stage company. - Strong full-stack engineer, fluent in TypeScript, React, and a Node-based backend. - Track record shipping beautiful product surfaces that customers love and competitors copy. - Product instinct.
- You read a half-formed problem and figure out the right shape before someone hands you a spec. - Daily use of AI coding agents (Claude Code, Cursor, or similar) with opinions about where they help and where they don't. - Self-directed.
- Nice-to-Haves - Background in voice AI, conversational AI, LLM applications, or telephony. - Worked on a developer-facing product (APIs, SDKs, dashboards) where the audience is technical. - You've built your own startup, or shipped a side project people actually use. - Open-source contributions or public writing on engineering, design, or product practice.
Benefits
- Total raised: $72M MEMBER OF TECHNICAL STAFF, BACKEND WHY WE’RE HIRING THIS ROLE - 1M+ developers and 2.7M+ agents are built on our product surface. - Every assistant lives in our dashboard: Composer, Simulations, Monitoring, Knowledge Base, Versioning, Deployments.
- WHAT WE OFFER - Real stake: Competitive salary and excellent equity ownership. - Comprehensive health coverage: medical, dental, and vision plans. - Team love: We love hanging out, and we do quarterly off-sites. - Flexible time off: take what you need. - More: catered meals, transportation, gym, and a $10k annual L&D budget.