Svix is SendGrid for webhooks. Webhooks are becoming increasingly important, though they are still a pain to build. Developers need to worry about deliverability, retries, monitoring, security and the developer experience for their users. All of which are different for webhooks compared to the rest of the stack. We turn all of that into a simple API call.

We are well funded and are backed by Y Combinator, Aleph, and founders and CTOs of companies such as Github, PagerDuty, Segment, Lookout and Fly.io.

Mission

We are looking for a tech lead with a focus on the backend to help us continue scaling the team and the product. You will get to solve interesting problems and technical challenges. We move fast, and speed of execution is one of our core values. We are obsessed with providing a great developer experience, and you will be expected to share this obsession.

Outcomes

• Be a strong individual contributor, deploying high quality production code in a fast-paced environment.

• Build new features while providing a great developer experience for our customers.

• Help the team scale the product while ensuring stability and high availability.

• Help the team with technical challenges and successful completion of tasks.

• Help organize the team, planning sprints, delegating tasks, and organizing goals, while maintaining a high team velocity as the team increases in size.

Competencies

• Experience building and designing high scale and high availability systems, including a deep understanding of infrastructure, databases, and common backend patterns.

• Excellent technical, architectural (system design), diagnostic, and troubleshooting skills.

• Have a great “taste” in software and API design, with great instincts for what great looks like.

• Be a clear communicator that is great to work with.

• Have strong leadership and organizational abilities.

• Be obsessed with shipping and high engineering velocity, while maintaining high stability.

• Having previously worked as a tech lead, engineering manager, or a similar role.

• Experience with the technologies we use in the backend and infrastructure such as: Rust, Postgres, Redis, and Terraform.

• Bonus:

  • Rust experience (if lacking, an ability to quickly ramp up is required)

  • Frontend experience

General guidelines

• We like candidates with varied backgrounds - don't be shy, apply!

• Hackers/OSS devs welcome, even without extensive work history. Checkout our OSS repo on Github.

• Please include a few words on why you'd like to work at Svix.

• All roles are full-time - no students or part-time.

Our current tech consists of Python (typed), FastAPI, Rust, React, TypeScript, Postgres, Redis and AWS.