3 months ago
Remote, WorldwideSenior
Responsibilities
- Grow API compatibility with the Supabase client and maintain conformance tests
- Bring more of the Supabase stack to SQLite
- Build and harden upgrades from Supabase Lite to full Supabase
- Own the CLI, local tooling, documentation, and overall developer experience
- Build and harden a scale-to-zero hosted offering with loosely coupled implementation components
- Work with design partners to turn migration and integration friction into product improvements
- Engage with the open-source community and contribute to the broader Supabase stack
Requirements
- Substantial backend or full-stack experience with strong TypeScript fluency
- Experience building or contributing to a backend system, framework, or developer platform
- Ability to work as a generalist across API design, storage internals, and infrastructure
- Strong SQL and relational database fundamentals, including understanding differences between Postgres and SQLite
- Ability to read unfamiliar code and match reference implementations in other languages
- Commitment to compatibility, correctness, tests, and specifications
- Interest in developer experience, clean APIs, fast feedback loops, and effective tooling
- Comfort owning ambiguous early-stage work and defining specifications
- Comfort working in public repositories on a remote, asynchronous team
- Clear written communication
- Experience with the Supabase stack, developer CLIs, or open-source maintenance is a bonus
Benefits
- Fully remote with global hiring and no offices
- WeWork membership or coworking allowance
- Employee ESOP equity ownership
- Tech allowance for equipment and work setup
- Health insurance covered at 100% for employees and 80% for dependents
- Annual company off-site
- Flexible asynchronous work
- Annual professional development and education allowance
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About Supabase
Supabase builds an open-source Postgres-based backend platform for developers, bundling database, authentication, storage, realtime APIs, edge functions, and vector search. It monetizes through a managed cloud service and enterprise offerings while remaining deployable self-hosted. Founded in 2020 and privately held, the company operates globally with a fully remote team. Developers use Supabase as a Firebase alternative to launch quickly and scale production applications on PostgreSQL.