5 months ago
Base Salary
$170k - $170k/yr
Responsibilities
- Work across Convex APIs, plugins, and AI framework integrations for agentic applications and agents.
- Identify gaps in how developers use Convex and own solutions to address them.
- Prioritize projects independently with the Head of AI Ergonomics, engineering team, and CTO.
- Create demos, examples, and working customer engagements that demonstrate Convex's capabilities.
- Build software at the frontier of AI application development.
- Participate in occasional on-call support and respond to rare nighttime pages when needed.
Requirements
- Experience building developer-facing products, APIs, or tooling is valued.
- Strong instincts for creating intuitive developer tools and composable APIs are desired.
- Genuine curiosity about how AI is changing software development is expected.
- Ability to write high-quality code; TypeScript experience is a plus.
- Ability to work across system layers and develop a deep understanding of Convex systems.
- Experience or enthusiasm for working in a high-growth startup environment.
- Interest in working in person in San Francisco or experience working remotely with strong self-direction.
- Architectural judgment, conceptual thinking, simplicity, pragmatism, tenacity, and a constructive approach are valued.
Benefits
- Full-time position with equity and benefits
- Primarily in-person work at the San Francisco office, with limited remote arrangements for experienced candidates
- Occasional on-call responsibilities, including rare nighttime pages
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About Convex
Convex builds an open-source reactive database and full-stack backend platform for web app developers, combining data, compute, and real-time sync. It offers a managed cloud service and supports self-hosting, letting teams ship apps without standing up separate databases, APIs, or servers. Founded in 2021 and headquartered in San Francisco, this privately held company focuses on dynamic web applications and agent-driven workloads.