# Member of Technical Staff, Backend

**Company:** [Vapi](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/vapi)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** Backend Engineering
**Salary:** $200k – $280k/yr
**Skills:** APIs, Whatsapp, Rl, Voice Agents, Backend, Pipeline
**Posted:** 2026-03-16

> Build and own backend systems for voice agent platform, including pipelines, WhatsApp integrations, and customer-facing APIs. Experienced engineer from Series B-F companies who has shipped admired products.

## Job Description

## What You’ll Do
- **30 Day**: Ramp on our voice agent pipeline. It’s hard and fun.
- **60 Day**: Own end-to-end large projects like WhatsApp voice agents or auto RL loop.
- **90 Day**: Talk to customers and design APIs that last a century and delight them.

## Who You Are
- You’ve seen Series B to F.
- You’ve built beautiful products that we admire.

**Bonus**: You’ve built your own startup.

## What We Offer
- Competitive salary and excellent equity ownership
- Comprehensive health coverage: medical, dental, and vision plans
- Team love: We love hanging out, and we do quarterly off-sites
- Flexible time off: take what you need
- More: catered meals, transportation, gym, and a $10k annual L&D budget

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