Vapi

Voice AI for developers.

Staff Backend Engineer

$150K - $300KSan Francisco
Job type
Full-time
Role
Engineering, Full stack
Experience
6+ years
Visa
Will sponsor
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About the role

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!

About Vapi

Voice AI for developers

Vapi
Founded:2020
Batch:W21
Team Size:40
Status:
Active
Location:San Francisco
Founders
Jordan Dearsley
Jordan Dearsley
Founder
Nikhil Gupta
Nikhil Gupta
Founder