Vapi

Member of Technical Staff, Frontend at Vapi (San Francisco, CA)

Vapi· San Francisco, CA· $235k–$264k·

Role details

Salary
$235k–$264k
Work type
Hybrid
Employment
Full-Time

Job description

Vapi (/ˈVɑːpi/):

  • Voice AI that resolves, not transfers
  • Powering 1 billion calls for companies like Amazon Ring, Intuit, ServiceTitan, and New York Life
  • Trusted by 1 million developers building the future of voice agents
  • Backed by Peak XV, Bessemer, Kleiner Perkins, M12, Y Combinator, and more with $72M raised
  • Try talking to Vapi now!

Why We’re Hiring This Role:

  • We’re hiring a senior frontend engineer in San Francisco to raise the quality of the experiences customers use to build and operate voice AI agents.
  • This role will shape frontend experiences across call health and LLM observability, reporting, and analytics - a broad product surface with significant room for ownership.
  • You’ll shape data-heavy dashboards and call logs used by thousands of monthly active users, making complex, real-time workflows fast, accessible, and trustworthy.

What You’ll Do:

  • 30 Days: Ramp up on Vapi’s frontend stack and Agent Loop/Observe. Build context with engineering, product, and design, learn how dashboards and call logs connect to backend services, and ship a meaningful improvement.
  • 60 Days: Take end-to-end ownership of a core workflow in call health/LLM observability or reporting and analytics. Deliver production React, TypeScript, and Tailwind work with strong API integration, testing, and measurable improvements to performance, accessibility, or usability.
  • 90 Days: Become the primary frontend owner for your area. Establish reusable patterns in the design system and Storybook, improve how data-intensive and real-time interfaces scale, and help the team use agentic coding without compromising craft.

Who You Are:

  • 5+ years of professional software engineering experience with deep frontend expertise and a record of shipping customer-facing products.
  • Strong command of React, TypeScript, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, browser APIs, and integrating frontend applications with backend services and APIs.
  • Strong web performance and accessibility fundamentals, including tools such as Chrome DevTools and Lighthouse.
  • A test-driven approach spanning component, visual, and end-to-end testing, plus experience with Storybook and design systems.
  • Excellent product and UX judgment and strong collaboration with product and design in fast-moving environments.
  • Production experience with agentic coding tools and Tailwind CSS. Data-intensive dashboards, complex tables, pagination across millions of rows, or real-time interfaces are a plus.

How We Work:

  • Build something worthy of love
  • Craft matters. We aim to build products and experiences customers genuinely love, not just tolerate.
  • Commit and follow through
  • We finish what we start and build trust by being people others can count on.
  • Why not today?
  • We value urgency and momentum. The fastest path to customer value usually wins.
  • Seek raw input
  • We go directly to customers, data, and teammates instead of relying on summaries or assumptions.
  • It’s our problem
  • We operate as one team. We share credit, own mistakes together, and support each other when things get hard.
  • Be direct and kind
  • We give feedback clearly, respectfully, and without delay.

Why Vapi:

  • Generational impact: Build the human interface for every business
  • Ownership culture: Many of us are previous founders
  • Kind team: The founders, Jordan and Nikhil, are Canadians
  • Tier-1 Investors: YC, KP seed, Bessemer

What We Offer:

  • Real stake: We offer a 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, equipment, and a $10k annual L&D budget

Why work at Vapi

  • High-Impact, Fast-Growing: Vapi is at the center of the booming voice AI space, processing billions of calls and serving iconic companies like Amazon. Employees have a direct impact on a platform that is reshaping customer service.
  • Engineering Culture: The company is API-first and developer-centric, founded by engineers from the University of Waterloo and Y Combinator.
  • Remote/Hybrid Policy: The company appears to have a hybrid model, with roles listed in New York City (NYC) and likely San Francisco, but also offers a degree of flexibility.
  • Notable Perks/Culture: The company is still in a high-growth phase (around 100 employees), offering the opportunity to work on cutting-edge AI infrastructure with a strong focus on engineering excellence and deployment support. The team includes a "Forward Deployed" engineer role, indicating a culture of deep customer partnership.

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