What are the responsibilities and job description for the Founding Senior Product Engineer position at Vapi Dashboard?
Company Overview
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.
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 Product Engineer 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 a 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 the 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 a company
5 years experience in Full-Stack / Frontend Software Engineering
2 years experience in designing features you’ve deployed
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