Software Engineer: Backend

Whippy is leading the way in AI-powered business communication, transforming how companies engage with customers using intelligent AI Agents. From customer support to marketing to sales, businesses rely on Whippy’s Voice AI and Chat AI to eliminate manual workflows—responding to inquiries, nurturing leads, screening job applicants, and automating high-value interactions at scale. By combining AI-driven messaging with omni-channel automation, Whippy replaces outdated tools with a single, powerful platform that helps businesses work smarter, faster, and more efficiently.

ABOUT THE ROLE

As a Backend Engineer at Whippy you will:

Craft highly scalable and intuitive APIs to rapidly deploy new products and services.

Write Engineering Requirement Documents to take something from idea, to defined tasks, to implementation, to roll out and evaluating its success.

Build test suites that help us effectively maintain product performance and reliability, and integrate product analytics to measure the success of the features your launch.

Some backend engineers have built.

- A Public API and webhook interface to process 100s of millions of messages

- A query language on top of Postgres and OpenSearch

- A production link shortening URL service with custom domains support

ABOUT YOU

A strong understanding of web api architecture to high quality and well document APIs.

A desire to be a part of the entire project development process. From research gathering and planning, to implementation and monitoring.

Great written and verbal communication skills for expressing ideas, designs, and potential solutions in mostly-asynchronous manner.

WHAT WE OFFER?

Compensation is $60K-$80K/year based on experience

Opportunity to take on significant responsibility and ownership in a highly disruptive product.

Working hands-on with serial entrepreneurs who have created $100M+ valued companies

WHAT TO KNOW?

To provide transparency, here are some important points to note about the position:

- We are a startup, and our team dynamics differ from those of companies in different sizes and stages. Our team is distributed across the globe, and this distributed nature will continue to grow. This means that there is always something happening, so effective time management in a remote and asynchronous engineering environment is essential.

- While English is the second language for many engineers on the team, fluency in written English is a requirement. While a very high degree of fluency in spoken English is also a plus, if you are not confident in your written English ability, please do not apply.

- We do not ask applicants to complete take-home assignments or participate in “leetcode” style interviews. However, we do require a two-week full-time or four-week part-time fully paid “work trial” of “mutual assessment.” More details about this mutual assessment period are outlined below. If you are unable to commit to this, please do not apply.