Software Engineering Manager
San Francisco, CA, United States of America
Full Time
Posted by
Vapi
We're the shift to voice as humanity's default interface. We're the most configurable platform for deploying voice agents. We're grown to 400,000 developers in 20 months, adding 2,000+ every day. Try talking to Vapi now!
Vapi (/'w?pi/)
Why We're Hiring This Role- Our engineering org is scaling fast. We need leaders who can build high-performing teams, not just ship features.
- We need a Principal Engineering Manager to own a product engineering team-hiring, developing, and retaining exceptional engineers while delivering on an ambitious roadmap.
- You'll be the person who makes engineers better, removes blockers before they become fires, and turns a group of smart people into a team that compounds.
- 30 Day:
- Learn the Vapi platform, architecture, and codebase deeply enough to have real technical opinions.
- Build relationships with your team. Understand each engineer's strengths, growth areas, motivations, and blockers.
- Shadow the current workflow-standups, planning, code reviews, deploys. Identify what's working and what's slowing the team down.
- Partner with product and design to understand the roadmap and priorities.
- 60 Day:
- Own team health and delivery. Your team ships predictably, sustainably, and with quality.
- Establish engineering rituals that create clarity: sprint planning, retros, 1:1s, blameless postmortems.
- Start upgrading the team: identify gaps, open reqs, source candidates, raise the hiring bar.
- Remove at least one systemic blocker that's been killing velocity (process, tech debt, unclear ownership).
- 90 Day:
- Your team is humming: engineers are growing, shipping weekly, and fire drills are rare.
- You've made at least one exceptional hire (or have strong candidates in pipeline).
- Delivery is predictable. Product and leadership trust your team's estimates and commitments.
- You're raising the engineering bar at Vapi-through code review culture, mentorship, and setting the example for what great engineering leadership looks like.
- You've seen Series B to F.
- You're sold multi-million dollar deals to F500.
- Bonus: You've built your own startup.
- Generational impact: Build human interface for every business.
- Ownership culture: 90% of company is previous founders.
- Kind team: The founders Jordan and Nikhil are Canadians.
- Tier-1 Investors: YC, KP seed, Bessemer series A.
- Real stake: We offer competitive salary and excellent equity ownership.
- Comprehensive health coverage: medical, dental, and vision plans.
- Team love: We love hanging out and do quarterly offsites.
- Flexible time off: take what you need.
- More: catered meals and transportation, gym & coaching stipends!
San Francisco, CA, United States of America
Vapi
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