Software Engineer, Backend

About Wispr

Wispr Flow is making it as effortless to interact with your devices as talking to a close friend. Today, Wispr Flow is the first voice dictation platform people use more than their keyboards — because it understands you perfectly on the first try. It’s context-aware, personalized, and works anywhere you can type, on desktop or phone.

About The Role

As 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

We Consider All Qualified Applicants Without Regard to Legally Protected Characteristics and Provide Reasonable Accommodations Upon Request.

Compensation Range

$180K - $325K