Software Engineer, Product

We're looking for engineers who are deeply passionate about building good product experiences and expanding our product offerings, especially as we grow more up-market.

If you're an engineer with good design taste who cares about quality but is also very comfortable with prioritization and working directly with customers and business teams, you'll likely be a great fit for this team. This is a role for folks who don't just want to be solving puzzles, they want to do work that has real impact and to apply product sensibilities to deciding "why" and "what" we build, not just "how".

- Design, build and maintain Convex's platforms, dashboard UI, integrations, billing and other services.

- Work directly with customers and company leadership (hi! this is me, James) to shape plans for what features we need to build.

- Develop a strong understanding of what matters for our customers and what matters for our business and leverage this to make tradeoffs and discern between competing priorities.

- Help establish good practices and reliability guidelines as we scale up our team and systems.

- Strong UX sensibilities and enthusiasm to build intuitive interfaces.

- The ability to conceptualize the needs of someone else. Often our customers have much larger teams than ours with different business requirements we need to understand.

- Empathy for what drives the business and and expertise at prioritizing what matters.

- Experience or enthusiasm for scaling in a high growth startup environment.

- An appreciation for clean architectures and an ability to write high quality code.

- An enthusiasm for going deep to understand Convex systems and not be constrained to a certain layer of the stack

This is an attempt to outline some characteristics of candidates that would make great engineers at Convex. We're have a high demand for conceptual thought and architectural sensibilities, while also having the typical demands of a small startup.

If someone has a few years of experience it's extremely valuable for them to have worked closely with a person, team or organization that's truly excellent , in any domain. Excellence can't just be learned passively since it requires being better than the status quo. The candidate doesn't need to be excellent yet but they need to have an appreciation that it requires a lifetime of dedication.

*The salary range for this full-time position is >$170,000 + equity + benefits