Software Engineer, AI
Convex, San Francisco
About the job
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.
The Team: https://convex.dev/about-us
Convex has assembled a team of engineers who have built and designed some of the largest platforms 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
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 is an excellent engineer with the taste to develop composable APIs and abstractions, and the judgment to know when that's not the right call. This is a role with real latitude. You'll be looking at a broad product surface area, deciding what matters most, and building it without much hand-holding. If you're a former founder or an engineer who's comfortable moving between product and infrastructure, and you want to operate with a lot of autonomy on a small, high-leverage team, this is for you.