# Member of Technical Staff, Backend at Vapi

- Company: Vapi
- What the company does: 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.
- Company website: https://vapi.ai/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Senior
- Location: San Francisco
- Work setup: Remote
- Pay: $200K to $325K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-05-21
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/vapi/d270d613-30b8-4fdc-96e0-514993ca7a82
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/vapi-member-of-technical-staff-backend/

## 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

Tags: Engineering