Wispr Flow

Wispr Flow

Software Engineer, Backend

San Francisco

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 345 days ago
PythonDistributed SystemsCode ReviewMachine LearningData EngineeringLLMsIncident Response

About the role

  • As a Software Engineer, Backend, at Wispr, you'll play a crucial role in building the first capable, habit forming voice interface that scales to a billion users.
  • Members of our technical staff are responsible for prototyping and designing new features of our voice interface, building infrastructure to handle <500ms LLM inference for millions of requests from everywhere around the world, and scaling the personalization of our speech models and LLMs.

Responsibilities

  • Build and own core backend systems, APIs, data pipelines, and infrastructure that power Wispr's dictation and agentic features across desktop and mobile
  • Design for reliability, security, and scale, owning services end-to-end from initial architecture through production performance and incident response
  • Collaborate closely with ML engineers to integrate and ship model improvements into production, fast
  • Work directly with product and design to turn product goals into sound technical plans, flagging trade-offs and sequencing work thoughtfully
  • Comfortable reasoning about security, from data handling and auth patterns to thinking about what could go wrong in a system you're building

Nice to have

  • experience with on-device or edge systems or building consumer-facing products at scale
  • We consider all qualified applicants without regard to legally protected characteristics and provide reasonable accommodations upon request.
  • Fluent in at least one backend language (ideally Python) and comfortable picking up new tools when the problem calls for it
  • You use AI coding tools fluently and have a point of view on how to get the most out of them
  • You care about both correctness and speed
  • you know when to move fast and when to slow down and get it right
  • Experience with real-time or low-latency systems is a plus, as Wispr processes audio on-device and in the cloud and we care a lot about performance

Skills

  • Wispr Flow is making it as effortless to interact with your devices as talking to a close friend.

Benefits

  • Raise the quality bar through code review, documentation, and engineering practices that the whole team benefits from
  • Bonus: experience with on-device or edge systems or building consumer-facing products at scale

This listing is sourced directly from Wispr Flow's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.