Software Engineer, AI

About 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.

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.

What You'll Do:

- Work across our APIs, plugins, and AI framework integrations to make Convex the best platform for building agentic apps and agents.

- Stay close to how developers are actually building with Convex, identify gaps, and own fixing them.

- Be self-directed to prioritize the right projects to work on, in close collaboration with our Head of AI Ergonomics, the engineering team, and CTO (hi! this is me, James).

- Strengthen the case that Convex is the best platform for agentic development, through demos, examples, and working directly with customers.

- Write a bunch of cool code at the frontier of how AI apps get built.

What Excites Us:

- 4+ years of experience shipping and owning developer-facing products, APIs, or tooling, with a track record of operating independently.

- Strong 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.

- Interest in working in-person at Convex's office in SF, or have experience working remotely and be highly self-directed.

- Ability to write high quality code (TypeScript experience a plus).