Founding Senior Engineer

Apple Intelligence and Google Gemini are about to onboard 4 billion people to voice assistants that actually talk like people. This marks a new beginning for voice as the world’s default interface. We will all want voice everywhere. Businesses are not ready. Products are not ready.

We’re building the infrastructure that helps developers close the gap between the raw model and voice AI in production. Give it a try here.

We launched in March, scaled revenue, and raised a Series A from a top-tier firm this past week. We’re a small team of 17 and growing. We're building out the founding team in-person in SF to scale what’s working.

Mission

The Senior Engineer (Frontend) will own the design and implementation of our entire frontend Dashboard platform. You’ll also be a foundational part of how we build the culture at Vapi.

Outcomes

• Design and ship frontend features
• Ship a pre-scoped feature within the first 7 days
• Ship a feature independently within the first 30 days
• Collaborate with growth engineering to ship set of experiments within the first 45 days
• Make the frontend codebase more robust, composable, and maintainable
• Ship a pre-scoped improvement or refactor within the first 14 days
• Ship an improvement independently within the first 30 days
• Listen to user feedback and ship improvements
• Receive a request from Support team and ship the fix within the first 14 days
• Pick up customer threads unprompted, investigate and solve within the first 14 days
• Build things that delight customers
• Unprompted, delight a customer within the first 30 days (ex. Confetti on first call)

Competencies

• Experience with React + Typescript frontend stack
• Communication: You can clearly articulate what you’re thinking and feeling
• Cracked-ness: You’re more cracked than the most cracked person on the team
• Startup Ready: You have a reason to be here and can make sacrifices for something uncertain
• Founder Juice: New ideas come from you, you build it yourself or annoy everyone until it’s done ;)

Qualifications

• Previous Founding/Senior/Staff/Principal Engineer
• 1+ years of experience at company
• 5+ years experience in Full-Stack / Frontend Software Engineering
• 2+ years experience in designing features you’ve deployed

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