About the position
Convex is transforming the way developers build applications. Our mission is to fundamentally change how software is built on the Internet by empowering developers to create fast, reliable, and dynamic apps without a backend team. We provide a full-stack app platform carefully designed with database, compute and backend abstractions that allow developers and LLMs to move fast but also create products that scale and remain simple over their lifetime. Convex has assembled a team of engineers who have built and designed some of the largest backends in the world, with exabytes of data, millions of transactions per second, and shipped desktop and mobile software onto billions of devices. We are a group of friendly, collaborative, and passionate people that love working in-person together in our office in San Francisco.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain Convex’s client libraries, sync protocol, and query APIs.
- Support new frameworks and keep track of new technologies in the app development space.
- Develop an understanding of what abstractions scale and compose well in our stack.
- Be self-directed to prioritize the right projects to work on, in close collaboration with the engineering team and CTO.
- Help establish good practices and design guidelines as we scale up our team and systems.
- Write a bunch of cool client library code.
Requirements
- Multiple years experience building APIs, client libraries or developer tools.
- Good understanding of best practices in the TypeScript, React, and web dev ecosystems.
- Experience or enthusiasm for scaling in a high growth startup environment.
- Ability to write high quality code (strong TypeScript experience a plus).
- An enthusiasm for going deep to understand Convex systems.
Nice-to-haves
- Experience with OLTP databases.
- A mindset that values simplicity and pragmatism.
- Experience in user-facing live-site services.
Benefits
- Salary range for this full-time position is >$170,000 + equity + benefits.
