Vapi
Member of Technical Staff, Backend
San Francisco · Staff+
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 128 days ago
TypeScriptReactNode.jsFull-Stack DevelopmentLLMs
About the role
- Most phone systems trap callers in menus and scripts.
- 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.
Responsibilities
- Make real calls. Build real assistants on Vapi across our main provider integrations (LLMs, STT, TTS, telephony). Get a working mental model of the platform end to end.
- 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.
- 5+ years building product, with 2+ at an early-stage company.
- 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.
- Build the human interface for every business.
Compensation
- Real stake: Competitive salary and excellent equity ownership.
Benefits
- Real stake: Competitive salary and excellent equity ownership.
- Comprehensive health coverage: medical, dental, and vision plans.
- Flexible time off: take what you need.
- More: catered meals, transportation, gym, and a $10k annual L&D budget.
Company info
- Amazon Ring, ServiceTitan, New York Life, Intuit, Kavak, and thousands more, from YC startups to the Fortune 500
- 70% of the company are previous founders.
This listing is sourced directly from Vapi's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.