Convex
SaaS
SoftwareEngineer,AI
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“Software Engineer, AI at Convex. Skills: AI, APIs, Framework integrations. Work across APIs, plugins, and AI framework integrations. Make Convex the best platform for building agentic apps”
What You'll Achieve.
Create products that scale; Create products that remain simple
Industry & Context.
Debug a tricky issue; Solve a problem no one has solved before
On-call, Respond with dedication, Dig deep to debug
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
Excellent engineer, High energy, Enthusiastic, Ability to write high quality code, Conceptual thought, Architectural sensibilities, Deep thinker, Value simplicity, Pragmatism, Bring energy, Tenacity
Nice to Have
Former founder, Engineer straddling both product and infrastructure, Junior engineer excited to learn a ton, Experience building developer-facing products, APIs, or tooling, Instincts for what makes a developer tool feel right to use, Genuine curiosity about how AI is changing the way software gets built, Experience or enthusiasm for scaling in a high growth startup environment, Experience working remotely and be highly self-directed, TypeScript experience, Appreciation that excellence requires a lifetime of dedication
What You'll Do.
and AI framework integrations
Make Convex the best platform for building agentic apps
Stay close to how developers build with Convex
Identify gaps and own fixing them
Prioritize projects to work on
Strengthen case for Convex as best platform
Write code at the frontier of AI app development
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Close collaboration with Head of AI Ergonomics; Close collaboration with engineering team; Close collaboration with CTO; Work in-person together
Full Job Description
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. The Team: https://convex.dev/about-us 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. We hire primarily in SF but have a few experienced folks working remotely in certain situations. The Role: It’s not sufficient for Convex to be the best platform for agentic development, it also has to be the best platform for building agentic applications too, all while maintaining strong architectural principles that lead to applications that stay simple, correct, and secure over time. Architecting this platform is still the domain of very talented humans, and we want you to be one of them. We have a lot of work to do. The projects involve range from small ergonomic tweaks to make agentic development seamless, large structural changes like branching and automatic performance optimization of Convex projects, and keeping on top of and ahead of technological shifts in the industry. The ideal candidate would be an excellent engineer with the good taste to invest in developing composable APIs and abstractions while also being high energy and enthusiastic about working on a broad product surface area. If you’re a former founder, an engineer straddling both product and infrastructure, or a junior engineer excited to learn a
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