Software Engineer, AI

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 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:

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 ton while working with a truly world-class 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 Ergono...