About the RoleAs a Software Engineer, Backend, at Wispr, you'll play a crucial role in building the first capable, habit forming voice interface that scales to a billion users. Members of our technical staff are responsible for prototyping and designing new features of our voice interface, building infrastructure to handle
What You'll Do- Build and own core backend systems, APIs, data pipelines, and infrastructure that power Wispr's dictation and agentic features across desktop and mobile
- Design for reliability, security, and scale, owning services end-to-end from initial architecture through production performance and incident response
- Collaborate closely with ML engineers to integrate and ship model improvements into production, fast
- Instrument systems for observability (logging, metrics, alerting) so we can understand how things are working and catch problems early
- Use AI tools actively in your day-to-day work to move faster, write better code, and solve harder problems
- Work directly with product and design to turn product goals into sound technical plans, flagging trade-offs and sequencing work thoughtfully
- Raise the quality bar through code review, documentation, and engineering practices that the whole team benefits from
What Makes You a Great Fit- Strong backend fundamentals: you've built and shipped production services and have a solid grasp of APIs, databases, and distributed systems
- Fluent in at least one backend language (ideally Python) and comfortable picking up new tools when the problem calls for it
- Comfortable reasoning about security, from data handling and auth patterns to thinking about what could go wrong in a system you're building
- You use AI coding tools fluently and have a point of view on how to get the most out of them
- You care about both correctness and speed; you know when to move fast and when to slow down and get it right
- Experience with real-time or low-latency systems is a plus, as Wispr processes audio on-device and in the cloud and we care a lot about performance
- Bonus: experience with on-device or edge systems or building consumer-facing products at scale
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