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Member of Technical Staff, Backend

Vapi · San Francisco · Remote

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About Vapi

Build, test, and deploy advanced voice AI agents in minutes with Vapi. The platform for developers creating conversational voice AI. Backed by Bessemer, Peak XV and Y Combinator.

About the role

30 Days: Make real calls and build real assistants across LLM, speech-to-text, text-to-speech, and telephony integrations. Develop a working mental model of how Vapi’s product surfaces map to APIs, services, data systems, and production workflows, then ship your first scoped backend product improvement.

What they're looking for

  • A track record operating at senior or staff scope: independently owning customer-facing backend product areas from an ambiguous problem through measurable production outcomes
  • Strong hands-on experience with TypeScript/Node.js, Go, or a comparable backend stack, plus the ability to design clear APIs, services, and data models
  • Experience building distributed or asynchronous systems with databases, queues, workflows, or event-driven patterns—and reasoning clearly about failure modes
  • Strong product judgment: you start with the user problem, turn incomplete requirements into a clear technical approach, and make tradeoffs based on customer impact
  • Production ownership: you care about testing, observability, reliability, incident response, safe rollouts, and what happens after launch
  • Regular, thoughtful use of AI-assisted development tools to improve speed and quality, paired with strong engineering judgment about the result
More about this role

Voice AI that resolves, not transfers

Powering 1 billion calls for companies like Amazon Ring, Intuit, ServiceTitan, and New York Life

Trusted by 1 million developers building the future of voice agents

Backed by Peak XV, Bessemer, Kleiner Perkins, M12, Y Combinator, and more with $72M raised

Try talking to Vapi now!

More than 1 million developers have built 2.7M+ agents on Vapi. Every assistant depends on a growing product surface—from Composer, Simulations, Monitoring, and Knowledge Base to Versioning and Deployments.

Behind those experiences are hard backend product problems: durable APIs and data models, real-time and asynchronous workflows, observability, evaluations, guardrails, and reliable operation of non-deterministic systems.

We’re hiring a backend product engineer to own those systems end to end and help customers move voice agents from a compelling demo to dependable production—at Fortune 500 scale. The work is genuinely hard and unusually fun.

30 Days: Make real calls and build real assistants across LLM, speech-to-text, text-to-speech, and telephony integrations. Develop a working mental model of how Vapi’s product surfaces map to APIs, services, data systems, and...

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